(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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3 Responses to “(Updated) What Happened to Sabrine Al-Janabi?”
Shaun,
These rapes aren’t suprising(not acceptable)due to our being smack in the middle of a Muslim nation. To be PC we have banned alcohol use by the troops. Fratinising(sp) with Muslim women isn’t allowed either. During other wars the US troops had access to women and alcohol for entertainment. Remeber all the American/Asian/(Vietnamese) children we left behind. Leaving them behind and the shunning of them by the’pure’ Vietnamese is something ignored in most histories. (snarl alert) Maybe Michele Malkin would write a book about what the Japanese did with Korean women during WWII. It could help in the GWOT.
Shaun- I saw an update on this on the MSN site. Maliki fired a high-level Sunni investigator who was looking into this (the alleged rapists were Shiite). Seems as though Iraq is moving a step further towards Shiite rule.
It fits in with an interview I saw on Hardball with NBC’s Richard Engel. Engel claims that the Shiite death squads will no longer be fighting American forces, as they see it as being counterproductive to the goal of Shiite dominance. They now intend to sit back and allow the surge to defeat the Sunni insurgency. Stability is winning out over democracy.
kritter:
Thanks for the tip. I’ve updated my main post.