yo yo yo search it!

Sunday, July 02, 2006

shocking

and sad and unbelievable. we all know there are crazy people in the world. amoral, no conscience, yes even evil. however, to have three, four or five of these people all together cannot be a coincidence, can it? i do so hope this entire story is NOT true.

AP: Alleged U.S. Atrocity in Iraq May Have Been Premeditated Murder
Published: July 01, 2006 1:00 PM ET
BAGHDAD Investigators believe a group of U.S. soldiers suspected of raping an Iraqi woman, then killing her and three members of her family plotted the attack for nearly a week, a U.S. military official said Saturday. Up to five soldiers are being investigated in the March killings, the fifth pending case involving alleged slayings of Iraqi civilians by U.S. troops. The Americans entered the Sunni Arab's family home, separated three males from the woman, raped her and burned her body using a flammable liquid in a cover-up attempt, a military official close to the investigation said. The three males were also slain. A senior Army official who also requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing said one of the victims was a child. The soldiers had studied their victims for about a week and the attack was "totally premeditated," the official said on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. The family had just moved into the home in the insurgent-riddled area around Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad. The U.S. military issued a terse statement about the killings Friday, saying only that Maj. Gen. James D. Thurman, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, ordered a criminal investigation into the alleged slaying of a family of four in Mahmoudiya. U.S. officials said they knew of the deaths but thought the victims were killed in sectarian violence. But Mahmoudiya police Capt. Ihsan Abdul-Rahman said Iraqi officials received a report on March 13 alleging that American soldiers had killed the family in the Khasir Abyad area, about 6 miles north of Mahmoudiya. ..........

UPDATE: AP Embed Gets Scoop on Latest Alleged U.S. Atrocity

By E&P Staff Published: July 01, 2006 12:05 PM ET
NEW YORK AP correspondent Ryan Lenz, embedded with the 101st Airborne Division in Beiji, Iraq, produced the latest news bulletin today concerning yetr another alleged U.S. atrocity in Iraq, and one of the worst yet.Lenz reported this morning that five U.S. Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her on March 12-- and three members of her family in Iraq. The soldiers also allegedly burned the body of the woman they are accused of raping. Iraqi police had been told about the killings three months ago. The U.S. contended the killings were by insurgents, until two or three soldiers spoke up. The New York Times followed on this report later in the afternoon: "The deaths were originally attributed by the military to 'insurgent activity,' American officials said. That implies that soldiers involved in the incident may have misreported it to their commanders, or that there may have been a cover-up in the chain of command, as is suspected in the case of the Haditha killings last November.............

7 comments:

Mark Prime (tpm/Confession Zero) said...

Stay the course!

Unknown said...

i will poetryman, i will. i don't have a choice

Anonymous said...

I'll believe a lot of things . . . a lot of bad things . . .

but for a group of U.S. soldiers to coordinate and premeditate a rape-murder, there would have to be a total breakdown of command. this sounds more like a gang initiation than an act by soldiers. it sounds too sick for them to believe they could get away with it and too sick for them to believe the secret would stay a secret . . .

and if they had reason to believe they wouldn't get caught, how many other things are going on over there that no one finds out about at all??

rick the mortified.

Unknown said...

in answer to your question, i don't want to know. BUT i think we all MUST know. as in every walk of life, there are people in the service who don't belong there (and some that don't belong anywhere).

pissed off patricia said...

If this is the same story I read about this morning, the woman was a girl and only 15 years old.
The "under a lot of stress" defense will not work for me in this case.

When the military started recruiting basically anyone who could breathe in and out, these sorts of persons were bound to get in. All of this is compounding what was already a horrific situation.

Roxy said...

When you teach people to kill, follow orders, and repeat the words "terrorist" and "evil" over and over again and there is no balance of what is right, and what is good about humans, something is bound to happen.

While the military isn't the cause of this, and responsibility lies within the people who committed the atrocities, it also didn't help prevent it. There is very little "instruction" on the ways of the Iraqi people - and they have been dehumanized by media and our government for so long.

Unknown said...

p o p, one story i read had her at 15, another at 20. it doesn't matter. it appears to be a PREMEDITATED ACT of a sick bunch of non humans. period

and roxy, i do agree with you as well. that happens. this act was well beyond that though. the non humans had to have it within them well BEFORE going to iraq