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Iraq-Jordan
Unsubstantiated rape allegations against US troops in Iraq
2005-02-23
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is investigating an allegation that a US soldier raped an Iraqi female prisoner while she was in US military custody, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. The allegation has not yet been substantiated, he said on Tuesday. He gave no details.

Another rape allegation against a US soldier by an Iraqi woman was dismissed for lack of evidence, Whitman said. They are the only two rape allegations that have been made against US troops by Iraqi women, the spokesman said.
But I thought Amnesty Int'l said there were 'many' of these. I'm so confused, I'd best go lie down.
During testimony last week on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were pressed for information about rape allegations against US forces in Iraq. Rumsfeld promised to look into the matter and report his findings.
Posted by:Steve White

#9  Iraq Page 1 of 9. Please don't ask me to count them.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-02-23 8:48:52 PM  

#8  Mrs Davis, I'm seeing their site and frontpage has Sudan, Iran, Vietnam in the center, it doesn't have the United States.

As for the number of those recent reports about Iraq, since many of these are condemnations of terrorist bombings, condemnations hostage takings and beheadings, and so forth, I think you are trying to imply something that's actually the reverse of reality.
Posted by: Aris Katsaris   2005-02-23 8:38:19 PM  

#7  Sorry. Wrong thread. Pls. removed 6 and 7.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-02-23 3:30:45 PM  

#6  LOL
Posted by: Shipman   2005-02-23 3:30:06 PM  

#5  AI reports on Iraq per AI website:

1995-0
1996-3
1997-4
1998-10
1999-7
2000-15
2001-14
2002-10
2003-129
2004-55
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2005-02-23 2:39:13 PM  

#4  That's why tugocracies don't show up too often on AI's hit list

Thugocracies show all the time on AI's hit list. The problem is that the *media* don't focus on *those* reports.
Posted by: Aris Katsaris   2005-02-23 2:16:34 PM  

#3  Nontheless ABC/CBS/NBS/CNN/BBC/etc... will probably run with this as their top story for the next few months.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-02-23 12:50:44 PM  

#2  unfortunatly this happens from time to time. More unsettling are the incidents of male soldiers raping female soldiers.
Posted by: shellback   2005-02-23 12:42:45 PM  

#1  Steve, for AI two = many. Their count* only goes up to 10, they run out of fingers. That's why tugocracies don't show up too often on AI's hit list. They quit counting at 10 and so everyone else is just the same.

* exception being the US of course, which has no ceiling in numbers. The US must be perfect. Anything less than perfect by the US is evil.
Posted by: Spemble Whaimp3884   2005-02-23 9:50:40 AM  

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