US soldier admits murdering girl

[blackcat]

US soldier admits murdering girl

A second US soldier's plea of guilty to the gang rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her and her family has been accepted by a judge.

22 February 2007
BBC News
Sgt Paul Cortez admitted four murders, rape and conspiracy to rape. His plea means he will avoid the death penalty.

In November, Specialist James Barker, 24, admitted rape and murder over the killings and was jailed for 90 years.

Cortez broke down as he confessed to raping the girl as her parents and sister were shot dead in another room.

The case is one of several in which US troops are accused of killing Iraqis.

According to the plea agreement, Cortez admitted conspiring with three other soldiers, Private First Class Jesse Spielman, Specialist Barker and Steven Green, a now discharged soldier, to rape Abeer Qassim al-Janabi.

Card game

Pte Spielman and another man, Bryan Howard, are awaiting court martial on charges related to the attack.

Mr Green is being tried as a civilian because he was discharged from the army before his superiors knew of his suspected involvement. He denies the charges against him.

All five belonged to the 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, which is also where the hearing took place.

In court, Cortez admitted the plan was hatched as they played cards and that the girl had been targeted because there was only one male in her house, making it an easy target.

Family murdered

He said: "During the time me and Barker were raping Abeer, I heard five or six gunshots that came from the bedroom.

"After Barker was done, Green came out of the bedroom and said that he had killed them all, that all of them were dead."

Cortez added: "Green then placed himself between Abeer's legs to rape her. When Green was finished, he stood up and shot Abeer in the head two or three times."

The entire crime took about five minutes and the girl knew her parents and sister had been shot while she was being raped, the hearing heard.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6384781.stm

[Newspeak International]

I read this through watering eyes in the Inde today,what's new it's been going on for centuries.

The rape of a whole nation is going on as we laugh at politicians on Question Time,and the audience laughs and people are killed daily by collusion of one form of another,"towards the greater good of this nation"
quote Tony Blair.

People don't give a nonsense unless it directly affects them.Further,there are way more racists amongst the working class sheeple than thought,and
when reacting to such comments it's the fact I don't know how to talk to people,that's a good get out eh!

People don't want to know the truth as it will affect their outlook,and they point to me and they know it will.

I despair of the attitude of my working class comrades,I guess what I'm saying is I'm in the wrong working environment.

I wager this event was not in any of the tabloids?

(Soz I'm a bit emotional at the mo,again)

[gg]

It frightens me to think these men are brothers and sons and will be husbands and fathers someday, that they are soldiers and somehow supposed to be worshipped as grand warriors and "protectors of "freedom" in this endless, mindless cycle of violence called 'humanity'.

[London Mick]

Sadly as the earlier poster said, this happens in all wars. Think of the hundreds of thousands of young German women who were raped by allied forces as they overan Germany.