Well .. it's a well-known fact that young Muslim or Arabic women who have sex outside of marriage are brutally killed and sometimes burned; especially so if the relationship is with an infidel.
Knowing that .. this charge of killing this young woman and burning her are just foreign to me. And .. I just cannot reconcile that our young people could do this.
However .. I do know the stress of war can SOMETIMES cause people to make irrational decisions in the blink of an eye; decisions they would normally never make otherwise.
This is speculation on my part .. but I keep wondering if the young woman was carrying on with one of the soldiers .. her family found out about it and killed her [one of those "honor" killings] - and when her young soldier found out what they had done to the love of his life - he went temporarily out of his mind and exacted revenge for her death. I don't know why, but this scenario keeps running around in my head.
You could be completely right but I suspect that the first part is true and the end result was AQ using this romance as a pretext to do a crime and frame the US.
Is that about it on my thinking?
I had not thought of this one. I so want this not to be true, I have to guard myself but bottom line - my heart breaks for this young girl.
If these soldiers are indeed guilty, it takes absolutely nothing away from my awe, love, respect, and support for the rest of our troops.
Reported: Two witnesses (soldiers) confessed to planning, being accomplices to; and then covering up a rape and four murders.
During counseling after the deaths of the three soldiers that Central Command learned about the allegations that Americans, not insurgents, were responsible for the quadruple killing in Mahmoudiya, the military says.
The allegation is that the murder victims included a 14-year-old girl (also the alleged rape victim), her six-year-old sister and both of her parents. Not quite the usual scenario for an honor killing.