(Updated) What Happened to Sabrine Al-Janabi?

The U.S. has again found itself in the middle of a hugely embarrassing no-win situation in Iraq because of the civil war it has fomented.

The “situation” is what what happened or did not happen to 20-year-old Sabrine Al-Janabi.

Beyond a small handful of well publicized cases, there is ample anecdotal evidence that Iraqi and American troops have raped women and men. But even in a country where violence is the norm and rhetoric can be superheated, rape is almost never discussed by anyone and is never mentioned by the victims.

What makes Sabrine different is that she is the first woman who has used her real name and publicly told her story — of allegedly being taken into custody by three officers in the Iraqi national security forces who claimed that she was an insurgent sympathizer and then being raped by them.

The allegation, made in an interview on Monday night on Al Jazeera TV in which Sabrine told her story in graphic detail, has become yet another flashpoint for Sunni-Shiite tensions.

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