Is CIA Algeria chief a serial date rapist?

[TonyGosling]

Or is this a psyop to inflame Muslim opinion? One never knows these days.

CIA station chief investigated over drugging and raping two Muslim women in Algeria
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 3:55 PM on 29th January 2009

Accused: CIA employee Andrew Warren who is accused of raping two women

The CIA's station chief in Algeria is under investigation for allegedly raping two Muslim women who claim their drinks were laced with a knock-out drug.

Now U.S. officials are bracing themselves for fall-out in the Muslim world after the embarrassing incident.

Court papers filed in federal court in Washington by a State Department investigator show two women came forward separately to say they had been sexually assaulted by the man while at his home in Algiers.

The man was identified as Andrew Warren. He has not been charged with a crime.

Officials obtained a warrant to search the chief's home in Algiers - turning up videos that they said appeared to be secretly recorded, showing him in engaging in sex acts.

At least one of the videos apparently showed one of the victims in a semi-conscious state, investigators said.

Just days ago, new U.S. President Barack Obama went on Arabic television to announce his priority was to prove to the Muslim world that 'America is not your enemy'.

But reports of Warren's treatment of the Muslim women could upset that effort.

'It has the potential to be quite explosive if it's not handled well by the United States government,' Isobel Coleman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who specialises in women's issues in the Middle East, told ABC News.

'This isn't the type of thing that's going to be easily pushed under the carpet.'

The issue could become particularly sensitive in Algeria, which has been struggling to recover after decades of bloody conflict - and, since 2006, has home to militant groups affiliated with Al Qaeda.

Rescuers work at the site of a car bomb blast in Algiers in 2007. The region has been rocked by bloody Islamic fundamentalist conflict over the last decade - and the Warren case could turn feeling against Americans there

Rescuers work at the site of a car bomb blast in Algiers in 2007. The region has been rocked by bloody Islamic fundamentalist conflict over the last decade - and the Warren case could turn feeling against Americans there

An affidavit submitted by an investigator in November sought to search Warren's computer for evidence of past sexual assaults.

Warren, apparently a convert to Islam, was ordered home by the U.S. Ambassador, David Pearce, in October after the women came forward with their rape allegations in September, according to ABC News.

The affidavit says the first victim claimed she was raped by Warren after being invited to a party at Warren's residence by U.S. embassy employees, the American television network reported.

She told a State Department investigator that after Warren prepared a mixed drink of cola and whiskey, she felt a 'violent onset of nausea' and Warren said she should spend the night at his home.

When she woke up the next morning, according to the affidavit, 'she was lying on a bed, completely nude, with no memory of how she had been undressed.'

She said she realized 'she recently had engaged in sexual intercourse, though she had no memory of having intercourse.'

The affidavit says a second woman approached embassy staff in 2008 claiming that the man had sexually assaulted her at his home. Both women reported the incidents months after they occurred, independent of one another.

According to the affidavit, the second alleged victim said Warren met her at the U.S. embassy and invited her for a 'tour of his home' where he is said to have prepared an apple Martini for her 'out of her sight'.

She then felt faint and said she went to the bathroom - where, although she could still see and hear, she appeared to have become overcome by a paralysis.

She told investigators Warren attempted to remove her pants and told her she would feel better after having a bath.

She said she remembered being in his bed and asking him to stop - but that he said something like 'nobody stays in my expensive sheets with clothes on,' according to the affidavit seen by ABC News.

The woman claimed she later sent Warren a text accusing him of abusing her - and he sent one back apologising.

Warren claimed to investigators that the sex had been consensual and admitted to having pictures of the two women on his computer.

According to the affidavit, a search of Warren's residence in Algiers turned up Valium and Xanax - both drugs that have been used in date rape assaults - and a handbook on the investigation of sexual assaults.

State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the man in question has returned to the United States while the government investigates.

'The United States takes very seriously any accusations of misconduct involving any U.S. personnel abroad,' [yeah, right] said Wood, referring further questions to the Justice Department, which declined to comment.

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