CNN determined to cover up Fallujah Genocide...

[RBHam]

"Up next! Did UN forces commit sex crimes?"

Don't look at Iraq!!!

Pay attention to the Congo!!!

[knowbody0]

1. so blatant

you have my thoughts. good to know i am not alone. what crap

[ooglymoogly]

2. who cares who watches cnn anymore its just a repuke circle jerk

just got a call from friend wall to wall coverage of murder forget name. no news at all just the murder the trial and on ad finitum. pardon me while i puke

[RBHam]

3. Funny, no story on CNN about this......

For Iraqi women, Abu Ghraib's taint
By Annia Ciezadlo | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0528/p01s02-woiq.html

Excerpt:
Among the 1,800 or so pictures taken by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib, there are others, viewed by Congress but not released to the public, of at least one Iraqi woman forced to bare her breasts. And a US military investigator, Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, cited at least one case of a military police guard "having sex with" a female prisoner.

A spokesman denies that any of the five women now in coalition custody - three at Abu Ghraib, two more at other locations - have been abused. "All of these women being detained have been treated humanely," says Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a spokesman for the general in charge of detention operations. "None of their families need to be concerned that their dignity has been tarnished during their detention."

But in Iraq, where rumors alone can destroy a woman's reputation, the consequences of US detention are much more severe for women than for men. In a way, it scarcely matters if Azzawi's mother was raped or not: If she denies being raped, nobody will believe her, because Iraqi women rarely admit to being raped, a charge that can ruin a woman's life.

Now that there are real pictures of US troops sexually humiliating Iraqi women, reality and rumors have tangled inseparably. "With the pictures and the CDs, it becomes almost irrelevant if they're raped or not," says Manal Omar, the Iraq coordinator of Women for Women, which helps women in former war zones. "Even before the torture, the rumor was out that they were raping women in the prison. With or without the pictures from the porn site, the real pictures made people believe that. It made that rumor fact."

[Streetdoc270]

4. Well there are too many importent stories today

you know the basketball fight needs 3-4 days worth of coverage, and you can never get too much Scott Peterson coverage. :puke:

(btw why is he so special... is he the first husband in the history of the Whole Wide World to have murdered his spouse?)

[RBHam]

5. Why is he so special?

He was framed so they could pass the law that states that if you murder a woman carrying an unborn child, it's two murders.

It paves the way to outlaw abortion as murder.

The Bush Ops people murdered Laci and the baby - and they got the result they wanted.

[Rumba]

10. Nah

If he had been framed they'd have made sure to link him with more non-circumstantial evidence.

Not everything is a conspiracy, dude.

[RBHam]

6. How Many Iraqi Women Are Getting Raped?

by James Glaser
January 26, 2004

A Denver Post article of January 24th by Miles Moffeit and Amy Herdy is about "Female GIs reporting rapes by U.S. soldiers." "Women say response lacking within military, some even threatened."

Now in a combat zone where soldiers have been told to shoot first and ask questions later, it is not hard to believe that the American military command would look the other way if soldiers started raping Iraqi women. It looks like some of them have looked the other way even when they rape American women.

There has always been a perceived stigma put on any women who reports being raped and for those in the military I can only imagine that it is worse. That is why I believe that the number of rapes must be very high if at least 37 women that served in Iraq and Kuwait have sought sexual-trauma counseling from civilian rape crisis organizations. The total number of women raped will never be known.

These women, from the enlisted ranks and officers too, have reported poor medical care and incomplete criminal investigations. Also some say they were threatened with punishment after reporting assaults.

more...

http://www.jamesglaser.org/2004/p20040126.html

[RBHam]

7. Pattern Emerges of Sexual Assault Against Women Held by U.S. Forces

by Chris Shumway, the New Standard

Jun 6 - Well publicized images of US soldiers torturing and humiliating male Iraqi prisoners may be overshadowing evidence gathered by several human rights groups and Pentagon investigators indicating US military personnel have raped and sexually abused Iraqi women held at Abu Ghraib prison and other detention facilities.

Amal Kadham Swadi, an Iraqi attorney representing women detainees, told The Guardian she believes that sexualized violence and abuse committed by US soldiers against female prisoners goes far beyond a few isolated cases. It’s "happening all across Iraq," she said.

Women make up a small minority of the total number of Iraqis held by Coalition forces. The US military says 78 women are currently detained by occupation militaries throughout Iraq.

It is not clear, however, exactly how many women the US and its allies have detained since the invasion last year. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, 30 Iraqi women were housed in Abu Ghraib last October. That number was reduced to five last month, and finally to zero as of May 29, according to the military.

Like the majority of male prisoners, many of the women detained by Coalition forces have not been charged with any crime. Iraqi human rights groups say they are likely being used as "bargaining chips" against family members wanted by Coalition forces, Newsday reports.

more...

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=478

[RBHam]

8. Bush himself looked at rape photos...

BUSH WATCHES NEW PHOTOS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS RAPING AN IRAQI WOMAN BEFORE BEING PUBLISHED!!!
Albasrah.net

Translated by: Prof. Dr. Q. Al-Samarrai

[e-mail]

Washington: Sources in the Pentagon revealed that there are between 200 and 300 photos depicting various methods of inhumanly abusing and torturing Iraqi detainees which are not as yet published or shown to the media. Some of them show sexual violation and violent raping of young Iraqi boys. Bush watched as well photos of American soldiers (three of them) raping collectively an Iraqi detainee woman whom they forcibly led to an isolated spot. The American CNN reported that a well informed source in Bush administration as saying: Bush himself saw tens of colour photos depicting American soldiers in despicable sexual scenes with Iraqi detainees. Sources in Bush administration announced that furious discussion is going between the White House and the Pentagon on about whether it is advisable to permit publishing ALL the photos and videos that show the excessive abuse of Iraqi detainees at the hands of American soldiers instead of waiting for the media to get hold of them.

http://www.albasrah.net/maqalat/english/0504/women-pow-sexabuse.htm

[RedSock]

12. i think i found a typo

It should read:

"Sources in Bush administration announced that furious masturbation is going between the White House and the Pentagon ..."

[RBHam]

13. OMG..I laughed...

for the first time in a while...

and then I wondered...

What if Red Sock is right?

[RBHam]

9. US Forces Hold Iraqi Women As “Bargaining Chips”

By Samir Haddad, IOL Correspondent

BAGHDAD, September 13 (IslamOnline.net) – An Iraqi resistance group threatened Sunday, September 12, a volcano of attacks against the US occupation forces, who have taken Iraqi women hostage to exchange them with fighters.

A group calling itself the Saladin Al-Ayyubi Brigades, the military wing of the Sunni Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance, said the occupation troops kidnapped a mother and three girls on August 26 in Al-Latifia district, 70 kilometers south of Baghdad.

“The coward Americans demanded Iraqi resistance fighters in the area to lay down their arms and hand themselves in to release the four female hostages.

“We vow to teach the US troops a lesson for such a cowardly act unless they set the four free and unharmed,” read the statement, a copy of which was obtained by IslamOnline.net.

more...

http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-09/13/article04.shtml

[RBHam]

11. This doesn't make the UN sex crime story any less real...

Atrocities are committed everywhere by everyone...

It's how these stories are so blatantly manipulated in some cases and covered up in others by the supposed "free" press...