Imagine yourself a 14 year old girl. Suddenly one day foreigners enter your house and kill your parents, then rape you. As a 14-year-old do you understand what rape is? The only thing you would understand is that your parents were taken away from you. Imagine yourself surrounded by lunatics, with guns and then they tear your clothes off and try to tear your body apart. You are crying and wondering if these are tears of the loss of my family or tears of pain. The strangers around you are ranting in a strange language. You feel this as a nightmare but the pain makes you realize that it’s real.
The entire crime took about five minutes and Abeer Qasim Hamza knew her parents and younger sister had been shot while she was being raped.
And suddenly a bullet is fired… everything is over.
The horrific gang rape and murder of 14-year-old Abeer Qasim Hamza and the killing of her family happened in Mahmoudiya, around 20 miles south of Baghdad, on March 12, 2006.
The killing was originally reported to be the work of insurgents, but the role of the US soldiers emerged in June.
According to an FBI affidavit and other accounts, on the evening of March 11, Green and Barker started talking about going to Abeer’s house and raping her. Then on the following morning he and several buddies played cards and got drunk, a violation of war-zone policy.
After hitting some golf balls behind the checkpoint, an intoxicated Green again brought up the idea of raping Abeer, changed into Iraqi civilian clothing and made arrangements for a buddy to monitor the radio at the checkpoint so he and his confederates could go “kill and hurt a lot of Iraqis.”
Once at Abeer’s house Green herded her father, mother and Hadil, her 7-year-old sister, into a bedroom. Abeer’s brothers, Ahmad and Muhammad, were at school.
Green shot the father several times in the head, the mother several times in the abdomen and the sister several times in the head and shoulder with an AK-47, then proudly announcing to his buddies, “I just killed them, all are dead.”
Green then turned on Abeer, whom U.S. officials initially claimed was 20 or 25. As if that justified what happened next.
Abeer’s clothes were torn from her body and her legs tied while she kept squirming and trying to keep her legs closed and pleading in Arabic to stop. Green and two other soldiers then took turns raping her. By the time they had finished, blood was flowing from her vagina. Green then shot Abeer in the head two or three times, and set her afire in a crude effort to cover up the atrocity.
Some of the US military personnel responsible for this crime against humanity are: Bryan Howard, James Barker, Jesse Spielman, Paul Cortez, and Steven Green. All five were members of the 101st Airborne Division, based at Fort Campbell, which straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee border.
This brutal rape and murder, and the horrors of Abu Guraib are only the tips of the iceberg of the crimes against humanity conducted by the peace champions through an illegal war.
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