Rape Accusation Reinforces Fears in a Divided Iraq

New York Times by Marc Santora | Feb. 21, 2007 (News Report)

... when a 20-year-old Sunni woman from Baghdad appeared on the satellite television station Al Jazeera on Monday night with a horrific account of kidnapping and sexual assault at the hands of three officers in the Shiite-dominated Iraqi National Police, people across the country were stunned, some disbelieving, others horrified, but all riveted.

Almost immediately, Shiite leaders lined up to condemn the woman, calling her charges propaganda aimed ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Feb 21, 2007 - 8:29 AM PST
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008
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 by Jami Dwyer - Oct. 1, 2008

Lots of information here. The article seems to play up sectarian tension unnecessarily. If the story is true (horrible stories are, 99% of the time), this woman was raped by men, not Shiites or Sunnis or Catholics or Protestants or atheists. The fact that the Prime Minister's supposed medical exam reached the opposite conclusion to a medical exam supposedly conducted right after the attack is very worrying. Someone is lying in an extremely significant way.

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