Iraq soldiers admit rape of Sunni

[helderheid]

Iraq soldiers admit rape of Sunni
By ERNESTO LONDONO
Washington Post
2/23/2007
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi police official in the northeastern city of Tal Afar said Thursday that a military officer and three soldiers had admitted raping a Sunni woman and using a cell phone camera to record the attack.

The four soldiers told an investigative committee convened by the Iraqi Army that they sexually assaulted the woman nearly two weeks ago, according to Gen. Najem Abdullah, a police spokesman.

The soldiers' admission follows another Sunni woman's assertion this week that she had been raped Sunday in Baghdad by three members of Iraq's predominately Shiite security forces.

Iraq's Kurdish president and its Sunni vice president said Thursday that a judge should investigate her case, which the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has dismissed as groundless.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said that the courts were "the only legitimate place to examine such allegations" and that the government should avoid steps that would "inflame sensitivities and create mistrust."

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[Ron Green]

1. Freedom must be on the march.

[ThomCat]

2. Bringing peace and democracy...

x(

[thereismore]

3. That's going to be well received at the Sunni side... nt

[sniffa]

4. maLiki shouLd absoLve them in a few hours

and give them a reward.

[malaise]

5. Maliki caught lying again

EfuggingNOUGH. Lock up the war criminals.