It is possible that Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi won ...?

[uppityperson]

The jury is out deliberating Green's penalty. Life in prison or death.


http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/140155/u.s._soldiers_face_justice_for_murder_and_assault_of_iraqi_woman_/?page=entire

It is possible that Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi won what was in her mind the last and the main battle?

Four U.S. soldiers have been tried and convicted in military court for the March 12, 2006 assault and murder of Abeer al-Janabi and her family. Now, in the federal court trial of the last man accused, former Pvt. 1st Class Steven Green, information has surfaced that explains more fully what happened that day. This is the first of a two-part report on the Paducah, Kentucky trial.

It is possible that the dying Muslim girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi won what was in her mind the last and the main battle? Abeer, only 14, faced alone three U.S. soldiers who were intent on raping her, with a fourth nearby. As all have testified, Pvt. 1st Class Jesse Spielman stood by during the attack. Tall and strong from work in her family’s subsistence garden, she fought hard, sobbing, screaming, struggling, as three men in succession pried her legs apart and got between them. Brett Barrouquere, Associated Press , reports that Specialist Promotable Paul Cortez and Specialist James Barker testified that they failed to get erections. The defense attorney for Pvt. 1st Class Steven Green, facing the death penalty, questioned whether his client penetrated. To Abeer, fighting with all her strength to hold them off, those facts would have mattered.
Abeer's Iraqi ID card

It does not make the attacks less heinous. Afterward, Green put a pillow on her face and shot her in the head. Soaking her in acrid-smelling flammable liquids, they lit her and fed the fire with blankets thrown onto her body, leaving her in a pool of charred debris. Green is in Paducah, Kentucky, federal court awaiting sentencing for the crimes in Iraq by a panel of nine women and three men, the first civilian jury to try a U.S. soldier for actions during military service. The judging of Green, the last of the five perpetrators to stand trial for the murder of the civilian Iraqi al-Janabi family, is a triumph of a remarkably complex federal legal system, a small, determined group of reporters, including those from the Women’s Media Center who since 2006 have worked to keep Abeer in the world’s mind, and of bloggers throughout the world with the same intention.

The trial however re-opened that story in unexpected ways. Green was the lone shooter who murdered the entire family, so the previous trials of others involved focused exclusively on the gang-rape and arson leaving Green’s actions vague. In his Paducah trial, details about Green and his victims—Abeer and her sister Hadeel, their parents Qassim and Fakhriya—have suddenly swum into view.

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It was March 12, 2006. The boys Muhammed and Ahmed came home from school to find white smoke billowing from their house, blood and brains on the walls. In the front room, Abeer was half nude and had been shot in the head. In the bedroom, bullet holes and red splatters peppered a corner. The right side of Qassim’s head had been blown out by a shotgun, and he lay in a thick pool of blood. The body of Fakhriya looked broken. Little Hadeel had been killed, still clutching the stems of flowers from the garden, with a bullet through her right cheek. The boys stood outside the smoking building, holding hands and crying. Later they dropped out of school, “lost their futures.” Relatives at first thought insurgents had been responsible for the all this and ran to a U.S. checkpoint for help. “Investigating,” Sergeant Anthony Yribe aided Cortez in suppressing evidence. Cortez, one of the men who had battered, assaulted and burned Abeer, threw up violently on entering the room where Green had shot Hadeel and her parents. Barker by contrast was having himself a barbecue of chicken wings. Steven Green was exultant, bouncing on his Army cot shouting, “That was awesome!”

[jkshaw]

1. What a Horror, a HORROR!

[Ghost in the Machine]

2. Steven Green should be shot on the courthouse steps....

Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi didn't "win" anything. The poor child was being raped as she heard her family being killed in the next room. Then she was raped again and killed.

Again, Steven Green should be shot on the courthouse steps. Period.

[uppityperson]

3. I don't get what she "on", but it's a good article

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. And how many incidents like this were/are successfully covered up?

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The answer makes me ashamed to be part of the human species