Posted on 08/07/2006 12:54:27 PM PDT by seutonius1234
The medic, who was not named, said that when he entered the house in Mahmudiya on March 12, he found 14-year-old Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi naked with her legs spread and burned from the waist up, with a single bullet wound beneath her left eye.
He also told the hearings on Sunday that he had found her six-year-old sister in an adjacent room with the back of her head blown out, and the bodies of both parents riddled with bullets.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.aljazeera.net ...
Wait a minute...didn't the testimony from the US soldier say that Green had shot the girl multiple times?
LOL you don't expect al jazeera to be bothered with facts do you?
No, of course not. I'm just thinking that conflicting testimonies will only help our troops...Unless, of course, they're guilty.
Thats true, and for all of us I hope he is innocent.
Given that her torse was apparently badly burned, the bullet wounds to her chest may well not have been visible to the medic. The medic is testifying only to what he saw -- he did not conduct an autopsy.
Al Jazeera is handling this quite fairly, pointing out that the soldiers have been arrested, that the US authorities are conducting an aggressive investigation, and that soldiers would face the death penalty assuming the case goes to trial. This report can only help assure Arab readers that the US does not condone the sort of behavior these soldiers engaged in.
Allegedly engaged in.
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Not surprising Al Jazeera would jump on this one...
By this description, we'd be better off digging up Uday and Qusay and making sure there still dead.
At this point that's a legal technicality. The combination of confessions, accusations, and corroborating statements is pretty overwhelming. Precisely which individuals did what has yet to be determined, but it's pretty clear the event happened and was perpetrated by US soldiers.
Calling this atrocity a "rape case" rather understates things.
If the soldiers are found guilty, I think the death penalty is appropriate.
This is sooooo cooked up against our boys! The mentally derailed Islamists are turning up the heat, and the U.S. is scrambling to fall into the frying pan! For shame on all of them!
"Wait a minute...didn't the testimony from the US soldier say that Green had shot the girl multiple times?"
Yes. I was about to comment on that also.
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