Wake up Pakistan... See what the US soldiers did in Iraq

sagaciouscorpion

MPA (400+ posts)
This is the horrific example of the way the United States soldiers treat the people of occupied lands... we must wake up and force our government to kick these barbaric mercenaries out of our lands.... before its too late...

I havent uploaded the photographs...

Rape of Iraqi Women by US Forces as Weapon of War: Photos and Data Emerge
Sat, 2009-10-03 05:19 editor
USA
Daya Gamage US National Correspondent Asian Tribune
Washington, D.C. 03 October (Asiantribune.com):

In March 2006 four US soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division gang raped a 14 year old Iraqi girl and murdered her and her family including a 5 year old child. An additional soldier was involved in the cover-up.

One of the killers, Steven Green, was found guilty on May 07, 2009 in the US District Court of Paducah and is now awaiting sentencing.

The leaked Public Affairs Guidance put the 101st media team into a "passive posture" withholding information where possible. It conceals presence of both child victims, and describes the rape victim, who had just turned 14, as "a young woman".

The US Army's Criminal Investigation Division did not begin its investigation until three and a half months after the crime, news reports at that time commented.

This is not the only grim picture coming out of Iraq U.S. forces being accused of using rape as a war weapon.

The release, by CBS News, of the photographs showing the heinous sexual abuse and torture of Iraqi POW's at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison opened a Pandora's Box for the Bush regime wrote Ernesto Cienfuegos in La Voz de Aztlan on May 2, 2004.

Journalist Cienfuegos further states Apparently, the suspended US commander of the prison where the worst abuses took place, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, has refused to take the fall by herself and has implicated the CIA, Military Intelligence and private US government contractors in the torturing of POW's and in the raping of Iraqi women detainees as well.


Brigadier General Karpinski, who commanded the 800th Military Police Brigade, described a high-pressure Military Intelligence and CIA command that prized successful interrogations. A month before the alleged abuses and rapes occurred, she said, a team of CIA, Military Intelligence officers and private consultants under the employ of the US government came to Abu Ghraib. "Their main and specific mission was to give the interrogators new techniques to get more information from detainees," she said.

At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.

Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.

Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.

Detail of the content emerged from Major General Antonio Taguba, the former army officer who conducted an inquiry into the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq.

Allegations of rape and abuse were included in his 2004 report but the fact there were photographs was never revealed. He later confirmed their existence in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in May 2009.

The London newspaper further noted graphic nature of some of the images may explain the US President Obamas attempts to block the release of an estimated 2,000 photographs from prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan despite an earlier promise to allow them to be published.

Maj. Gen. Taguba, who retired in January 2007, said he supported the Presidents decision, adding: These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency.

The mere description of these pictures is horrendous enough, take my word for it.

In April, Mr. Obamas administration said the photographs would be released and it would be pointless to appeal against a court judgment in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

But after lobbying from senior military figures, Mr. Obama changed his mind saying they could put the safety of troops at risk.

In May, he said: The most direct consequence of releasing them, I believe, would be to inflame anti-American public opinion and to put our troops in greater danger.

In April 2004, new photographs were sent to La Voz de Aztlan from confidential sources depicting the shocking rapes of two Iraqi women by what are purported to be US Military Intelligence personnel and private US mercenaries in military fatigues. It is now known, Cienfuegos wrote in May 2004, that hundreds of these photographs had been in circulation among the troops in Iraq. The graphic photos were being swapped between the soldiers like baseball cards.



Asian Tribune carries here three of the Rape photographs which have brought criticism that the U.S. forces in Iraq have used rape as a weapon of war.

- Asian Tribune -

http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2009/1 ... ata-emerge
 

taul

Siasat.pk - Blogger
---Showing their true colors these beasts and demons :evil: :evil: ..I maintain my stance Pak army has done a blunder on one bad and uncalled for decision by a coward :evil: :x :x,We wouldn't be seeing all what's happening in Pakistan now,(Not to mention of all the collaboration done on part of indians to further hurt Pakistan) had sense prevailed in decision making :evil: :evil: :x :x These low lying filthy sums and douchebags have invaded yet another Sovereign country and just as they've ganged up ruthlessly and without even a single justification,people who are defending Pride and honor of their country should have had all alliances from wherever they could especially when united against an Illegal Occupier and who is a source of Instability in the whole region whose greed know no bounds and to pursue her interests,they would cross any lengths :evil: :evil: :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :x


--They wouldn't wanna show body bags being brought back home and neither would want these realities to emerge :evil: :evil: ,well guess what,they may be able to stifle whole loads of other pictures but their body bag count isn't gonna go any down but only up and up. :ugeek: