.S. forces abuse and torture female detainees in Iraq
 

Iraqi female detainees say that they have been illegally detained, raped and sexually humiliated by U.S. occupation forces.

One female detainee, who identified herself as ?Noor?, said that U.S. soldiers at Iraq?s Abu Ghraib raped women and, in many occasions, forced them to strip naked in public. She also said that many female detainees got pregnant.

The classified investigation launched by the U.S. army, led by Major General Antonio Taguba, confirmed Noor?s account and said that U.S. guards sexually abused female detainees at Abu Ghraib.

According to Taguba?s report, the 1,800 abuse photographs shot by U.S. guards inside Abu Ghraib included images of naked male and female prisoners, a male Military Police guard ?having sex? with a female detainee, and naked male and female detainees forcibly arranged in various sexually explicit positions for photographing.

The Bush administration, which insists that these were the acts of a few soldiers, blocked the release of photographs of Iraqi women detainees at Abu Ghraib, including those of women forced to bare their breasts, although these have been shown to Congress.

However, Taguba?s fifty-three-page report, found that between October and December of 2003 there were numerous instances of ?sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses? at Abu Ghraib?.

Also, a British MP, Ann Clwyd, confirmed a report that an Iraqi woman in her 70s had been harnessed and ridden like a donkey at Abu Ghraib after being captured last July. Clwyd said: ?She was held for about six weeks without charge. During that time she was insulted and told she was a donkey.?

Moreover, the Italian reporter, Giuliana Sgrena, who was held hostage in Iraq, reported that in one incident, U.S. occupation forces raided the home of Mithal al Hassan, and arrested both her husband and son.

?The soldiers later ransacked the apartment. Denounced as part of a vendetta, Mithal was condemned without trial to eighty days of horror in the company of other women prisoners who, like her, were subjected to abuse and torture. She has since spotted her tormentors on the internet.?

Other reports state the U.S. forces violate international laws by kidnapping Iraqi women to use them as a bargaining chip to persuade their male relatives to surrender.

Iman Khamas, chief of the International Occupation Watch Center, a nongovernmental organization that gathers information on human rights abuses under occupation, said that ?one former detainee had recounted the alleged rape of her cell mate in Abu Ghraib.?

According to Khamas, the detainee said that ?She had been raped 17 times in one day?.

Attorney Amal Kadham Swadi, one of seven female lawyers representing women detainees at Abu Ghraib, says that abuse and torture against Iraqi women is not confined only to Abu Ghraib, but is ?happening all across Iraq.?

?Sexualized violence and abuse committed by U.S. troops goes far beyond a few isolated cases,? she said.

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/new...ervice_id=7681

I'm sure the flaming will start any second now. Thanks for this link :)

It's from Aljazeera..

War is never a pretty picture.

Well of course they would wouldn't they, so that gullible idiots like you might believe them.

The enemy can just sit back and slit throats whilst their allies in the West (willing or just plain stupid) spread their propaganda for them.

Osama is laughing at you :1orglaugh

Especially when you are looking at a picture painted by Aljazeera whom go out of their way to make the Coalition forces look as evil as possible.

That is their entire market base.

I don't know why this surprises anyone. It's been happening for thousands of years.

So, if it was Fox News it wouldnt be biased?
:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I see Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, can't be trusted as it's propaganda but we must immediately accept this story from Aljazeera..

If this was a article on how rapidly the democratic process in Iraq was being Implemented the author would be called a "sheep"..

SOunds like a great pornsite.

Anyone got the photos?

Al Jazeera = bull shit

that is not new anymore.

Thank you, you represent 90% of the Southern California and Canadian viewpoint of this board... (Thank God my country doesn't subscribe to this one sided idiotic viewpoint!) :thumbsup

Of course it is - US/UK forces wouldnt abuse prisoners would they.........

it goes hand in hand with war, no big surprise here

Why do people assume that just because a person is in the Special Forces then they are automaticaly some sort of a saint and find it hard to believe stories like the one above, there are rapists and scum on this planet, and there are probably as many of them in the Special Forces as there are in any other profession in the world...