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Jul 27, 2006
This was sent to me by my dear friend Ann.  I was absolutely horrified at this & although I'm not too shocked about this, I am disgusted at such disrespectful behavior (to put it mildly)!

Please read this
and pass it on so others may also be aware of the barbaric, depraved and simply evil actions, mentality and attitude of the US forces. This monstrous crime has only surfaced in the Western media now when it was inflicted on those poor people in March 2006. Can you imagine how many more women (the girl in this case was only 15) and children - and for that matter - men have been raped by US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan since the occupations? This is the unreported side of the war which many people have been trying to expose...if any of you have watched the controversial film 'Casualties of War', reading this case will illustrate to you that the US mentality regarding human beings in other parts of the world has not changed since Vietnam and perhaps has even become even more cruel and twisted since then.
 

Source: http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/07/02/4884.shtml
 
>Eyewitness testimony about US rape, murder of Iraqi family
>Publication time: 2 July 2006, 15:41
>
>In a dispatch posted at 11:55pm Makkah time Saturday night, Mafkarat
>al-Islam submitted its correspondents' in-depth report on the rape
>and murder case in March that the American military have now been
>compelled to investigate.
>
>
>
>Mafkarat al-Islam noted that the number of rapes of Iraqi women
>committed by US occupation troops is already legion and continues to
>climb. Many women have been victimized within Abu Ghurayb and the
>other prisons; while many others have fallen prey to the rapists in
>American uniform who prowl the large prison that is occupied Iraq.
>
>
>
>But there is one case of rape that has come to the surface in recent
>days, which stands out for a savagery and brutality that goes beyond
>all bounds.
>
>
>
>On an afternoon in March 2006, a force of 10 to 15 American troops
>raided the home of Qasim Hamzah Rashid al-Janabi, who was born in
>1970 and who worked as a guard at a state-owned potato storehouse.
>Al-Janabi lived with his wife, Fakhriyah Taha Muhsin, and their four
>children - ‘Abir (born 1991), Hadil (born 1999), Muhammad (1998),
>and Ahmad (1996).
>
>
>
>The Americans took Qasim, his wife, and their daughter Hadil and put
>them in one room of their house. The boys Ahmad and Muhammad were at
>school since the time the Americans invaded the home was about 2pm.
>The Americans shot Qasim, his wife, and their daughter in that room.
>They pumped four bullets into Qasim's head and five bullets in to
>Fakhriyah's abdomen and lower abdomen. Hadil was shot in the head
>and shoulder.
>
>
>
>After that, the Americans took ‘Abir into the next room and
>surrounded her in one corner of the house. There they stripped her,
>and then the 10 Americans took turns raping her. They then struck
>her on the head with a sharp instrument - according to the forensic
>medical report - knocking her unconscious - and smothered her with a
>cushion until she was dead. Then they set fire to her body.
>
>
>
>The neighbor of the martyred family told the correspondent for
>Mafkarat al-Islam:
>
>
>
>"At 2pm a force of Americans raided the home of the martyr Qasim,
>God rest his soul. They surrounded him and I heard the sound of
>gunfire. Then the gunfire fell silent. An hour later I saw clouds of
>smoke rising from the room and then the occupation troops came
>quickly out of the house. They surrounded the area together with
>Shi‘i ‘Iraqi National Guard' forces, and they told us that
>terrorists from al-Qa‘idah had entered the house and killed them
>all. They wouldn't let any of us into the house. But I told one of
>the ‘National Guard' soldiers that I was their neighbor and that I
>wanted to see them so that I could tell al-Hajj Abu al-Qasim the
>news about his son and his son's family, so one of the soldiers
>agreed to let me enter.
>
>
>
>"So I went into the house and found in the first room the late Qasim
>and his wife and Hadil. Their bodies were swimming in blood. Their
>blood had spewed out of their bodies with such force that it had
>flowed out from under the door of the room. I turned them over but
>there was no response; their lives were already gone."
>
>
>
>The neighbor continued his account: "Then I went into ‘Abir's room.
>Fire was coming out of her. Her head and her chest were on fire. She
>had been put in a pitiful position; they had lifted her white gown
>to her neck and torn her bra. Blood was flowing from between her
>legs even though she had died a quarter of an hour earlier, and in
>spite of the intensity of the fire in the room. She had died, may
>God rest her soul. I knew her from the first instant. I knew she had
>been raped since she had been turned on her face and the lower part
>of her body was raised while her hands and feet had been tied. By
>God, I couldn't control myself and broke into tears over her, but I
>quickly extinguished the fire burning from her head and chest. The
>fire had burned up her breasts, the hair on her head, and the flesh
>on her face. I covered her privates with a piece of cloth, God rest
>her soul. And at that moment, I thought to myself that if I go out
>talking and threatening, that they would arrest me, so I took
>control of myself and resolved to leave the house calmly so that I
>could be a witness to tell the story of this tragedy.
>
>
>
>"After three hours the [American] occupation troops surrounded the
>house and told the people of the area that the family had been
>killed by terrorists because they were Shi‘ah. Nobody in town
>believed that story because Abu ‘Abir was known as one of the best
>people of the city, one of the noblest, and no Shi‘i, but a Sunni
>monotheist. Everyone doubted their story and so after the sunset
>prayers the occupation troops took the four bodies away to the
>American base. Then the next day they handed them over to the
>al-Mahmudiyah government hospital and told the hospital
>administration that terrorists had killed the family. That morning I
>went with relatives of the deceased to the hospital. We received the
>bodies and buried them, may God have mercy on them."
>
>
>
>The neighbor went on: "Then we decided that we must not be silent so
>we asked the mujahideen to respond as quickly as possible. They
>responded with 30 attacks on the occupation in two days, bringing
>down more than 40 American soldiers. But our blood was still not
>cooled, so we decided to go to al-‘Arabiyah satellite TV to tell
>them the story since it is a station that broadcasts in Iraq. But
>al-‘Arabiyah paid no attention to us and said we were liars. They
>told us that their policy was to rely on official announcements
>issued by the American army, and that they were not able to get into
>a story over which they had no power.
>
>
>
>This was told to us by the al-‘Arabiyah correspondent Ahmad
>as-Salih. So we went to local newspapers and they slammed the doors
>in our faces because we are Sunnis and the rape victim was a Sunni
>girl. But the Resistance fighters told us that God does not allow
>the blood of any Muslim to be lost, and they told us to patiently
>persevere and we would see such a punishment for the blood of ‘Abir
>and her family, for the violation of the honor of our sister, a
>punishment that would make people's hair stand on end.
>
>
>
>"I personally wasn't surprised that Umm ‘Abir [‘Abir's mother] came
>to me on 9 March 2006 and asked that ‘Abir be allowed to spend the
>night with my daughters. She was afraid because of the way the
>occupation troops looked at her when she went out to feed the cows.
>I agreed to that because there was an occupation forces' command
>post just 15 meters from Qasim's house, God rest his soul. But
>frankly I thought it unlikely that anything would happen to the girl
>because she was only something like 16 and she was just a little
>girl. But I agreed and she spent one night at our place and then
>went back to her home in the morning. We had no idea that the
>occupation troops would carry out heir crime in broad daylight."
>
>
>
>The neighbor concluded: "The occupation troops came last Friday -
>that is, one day before the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent visited
>the scene of the crime - and asked the people of the area to exhume
>the body of ‘Abir to conduct tests on it. And they also asked me to
>provide eyewitness testimony and I will go anywhere to make sure
>that justice is served."
>
>
>
>Mafkarat al-Islam was the first news agency to disclose the crime
>committed by US troops on that March day in al-Mahmudiyah.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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