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Sentencing of Steve Green in Abeer Death, Command Structure In Iraq

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multiple Deployment, Ann Wright, Abu Ghraib, Military Suicides, John Russell, Kentucky, Ptsd, Abeer, Mamoudiyah, Jesse Spielman, Rape, Massacre, Karen Marrs, Abu Graib, 2009, Al Janabi, Odierno, Michael Steele, Steve Green, Paducah, James Barker, 2006, 101st Airborne,  Iraq, War Wire, Iraq, Officer Guilt, Command Structure, World News
Gail McGowan Mellor

Enlisted people moreover are only one dimension. The truly dangerous distortion is at the top, in the command structures.

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The Death of Abeer in Iraq: What We Know Now

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jesse Spielman, Abeer Al-Janabi, Karen Marrs, Kentucky, Steve Green, James Barker, Hadeel, Women's Media Center, Federal Jury, Atrocity, Abeer, Paul Cortez, Fort Campbell, Murder, Bryan Howard, Fakhriya, Iraq War, Mamoudiyah Massacre, Muhammed Al-Janabi, Yusufiyah, Mamoudiyah, Barrouquere, Paducah, Qassim, World News
Gail McGowan Mellor

In 2006, Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Jabani, only 14, faced three U.S. soldiers alone, soldiers who were intent on raping her, with a fourth nearby.

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Former US Soldier Apologizes For Iraqi Girl Rape

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Soldier Iraqi Rape, Abeer Al-Janabi, James Barker, US Soldier Rape, Iraq, US Soldiers Iraq, Specialist Steven Dale Green, US Soldier, War Wire, World News

One of the five US soldiers who helped rape an Iraqi girl and kill her family told jurors Friday that he regrets what happened that day in March 2006....

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