Nickdfresh
02-19-2007, 08:21 PM
Middle East News
Iraqi Sunni woman accuses three Iraqi police of rape
By DPA
Feb 19, 2007, 23:15 GMT
Cairo - An Iraqi Sunni Muslim woman, 20, accused three Iraqi police officers Monday of raping her, pan-Arab broadcaster al-Jazeera reported.
The victim, who appeared on al-Jazeera with her face veiled, said the incident began when police stormed her house early Sunday in al- Amel district in western Baghdad while her husband was away.
According to the victim, the police accused her of cooking for Sunni insurgents and took her to a police station, where they raped her.
'They covered my eye, and I heard one of them saying let's start,' the distressed woman said.
One of the officers took photographs during the rape and threatened her with murder if she reported the rape. The woman said that a neighbour alerted US soldiers about the attack, and she was released.
Christopher Garver, a US military spokesman, told al-Jazeera that he could not confirm any US role in the incident, but said, 'The US military will support the Iraqi government in its investigation.'
Al-Jazeera reported that the woman did not specify that her attackers were Shiite Muslims, though Iraqi Shiites form the majority within the ranks of Baghdad police, especially senior commando units.
The allegation is likely to spur more tension between Sunnis and Shiites as Iraqi-US joint forces have been attempting for the seventh day to enforce a crackdown in the capital, as part of a new Iraqi security plan.
Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Hussein Ali Kamel rejected the allegation: 'Something like this could not happen, because Iraqi forces are operating with US forces all the time.'
'By God, if you don't bring justice to this Muslim Iraqi woman, history will curse us with eternal disgrace, Sunni Iraqi Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani told al-Jazeera.
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Iraqi Sunni woman accuses three Iraqi police of rape
By DPA
Feb 19, 2007, 23:15 GMT
Cairo - An Iraqi Sunni Muslim woman, 20, accused three Iraqi police officers Monday of raping her, pan-Arab broadcaster al-Jazeera reported.
The victim, who appeared on al-Jazeera with her face veiled, said the incident began when police stormed her house early Sunday in al- Amel district in western Baghdad while her husband was away.
According to the victim, the police accused her of cooking for Sunni insurgents and took her to a police station, where they raped her.
'They covered my eye, and I heard one of them saying let's start,' the distressed woman said.
One of the officers took photographs during the rape and threatened her with murder if she reported the rape. The woman said that a neighbour alerted US soldiers about the attack, and she was released.
Christopher Garver, a US military spokesman, told al-Jazeera that he could not confirm any US role in the incident, but said, 'The US military will support the Iraqi government in its investigation.'
Al-Jazeera reported that the woman did not specify that her attackers were Shiite Muslims, though Iraqi Shiites form the majority within the ranks of Baghdad police, especially senior commando units.
The allegation is likely to spur more tension between Sunnis and Shiites as Iraqi-US joint forces have been attempting for the seventh day to enforce a crackdown in the capital, as part of a new Iraqi security plan.
Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Hussein Ali Kamel rejected the allegation: 'Something like this could not happen, because Iraqi forces are operating with US forces all the time.'
'By God, if you don't bring justice to this Muslim Iraqi woman, history will curse us with eternal disgrace, Sunni Iraqi Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani told al-Jazeera.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
© Copyright 2006,2007 by monstersandcritics.com. (http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1265771.php/Iraqi_Sunni_woman_accuses_three_Iraqi_police_of_ra pe)