US soldier admits raping Iraqi girl and killing her family

One of four U.S. soldiers accused of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl last spring and killing her and her family pleaded guilty Wednesday and agreed to testify against the others.

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After entering his plea Wednesday, Barker gave the court a vivid account of the events.

Barker said he and the others were drinking and playing cards while they manned a traffic checkpoint. Green brought up the idea of raping the girl and killing her family, he said.

"He brought it up to me and asked me what I thought about it. At a couple of points, I told him he was crazy," Barker said.

Barker said he and Green then approached the others with the idea, but there never was a verbal agreement to do it.

"Things just got set in motion, we just started changing (clothes), myself, Cortez and Green," Barker said. "By the time we started changing clothes, it was more or less a nonverbal agreement that we were going to go along with what we were discussing."

Barker said he, Green and Cortez raped the girl, and Green killed the girl, her parents and her sister.

CBS

Comments

[ainelivia]

My statement was about how I see it. I am against the death penalty, so perhaps I should have said, prison I agree with, death penalty I am against.

[keith malone]

Osama, I was not being ironic, these men should have been tried under Islamic Sharia Law in Iraq

[joe90]

Tony Bush and George Blair,
their accomplices and those who benefited from their illegal unprovoked aggression against innocent defenceless Iraq,
should all be arraigned and tried under the Geneva Conventions,
to which both countries have agreed to abide by and recognise as the law.

There shouldn't be any problems about getting witnesses - I expect there will be more than four available to testify.

So much for western civilisation and western values then, especially when it comes to its own democratically elected leaders who don't live by them, but expect others to, especially their victims.

There is word for this ethical practice - its called 'hypocrisy' or 'blame the victims' etc etc

[joe90]

Scary stuff,
the US is threatened by the subversive forces of international commie pinko-ism -
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17445714.htm>Chertoff says U.S. threatened by international law
by
Reuters 17 Nov 2006

According to the US Chief of Fatherland Security, a Mr Herr Hitler,
the European Parliament in particular [is] harboring an "increasingly activist, left-wing and even elitist philosophy of law" at odds with American practices and interests

US Fatherland OberJokingFuhrer Adolf Chertoff,
is said to be aghast that the US government should be held accountable for its crime of unprovoked aggression against Poland.
Said Chertoff
"Iraq was a threat to US Security as a simple look at any map would show. Look at how close Poland is compared to Nazi Germany and then compare that with how close Iraq is to the US. Clearly, people who can't see the obvious connection between Saddam, Ally Cheeda, WMD and the needs of US security will have to be bombardered with a propaganda campaign, that would make Goebbals proud, until such times as they agree with us."

Here is Adolf Chertoff's speach about the threat posed by European Bolshevism in fool -
http://www.thesop.org/index.php?id=2955>Federalist Society's Annual Lawyers Convention Featured Speaker Michael Chertoff
by
SOPnewswire

PS
International Law used to be known as
the 'International Communist Conspiracy' (Cold War for short),
but is now more commonly refered to as
the 'Global War on Terror' (GWOT for short).

International Law
is threatening to undermine US efforts to -
- fight international terrorism,
- fight the axis of evil,
- stop people burning the american flag,
- brainwash people into believing George Blair and Tony Bush,
- stop US and UK governments being held accountable for their War Crimes

[Hot Sauce]

American terrorism, pure and simple. Not one of these sub-human bastards will get the death penalty.

[anna]

I am sorry to say so but it is muslims killing muslims by the thousands in Irak and that is nót 'the fault of the USA'. In Irak girls get also raped by muslims and who do not hesitate to blow them up in their schools.
Saddam and his perverse sons were Great Masters in torturing muslims, and he murdered some 2 million muslims during his wars with Iran, Koeweit and in Irak.
De mullah's murder muslims by the thousands, and hang even young girls from the gallows.

Therefore why your one-sided judgement about the USA? Isn't that hypocrical? The Taliban also raped girls and women. Nasty things happen in wars, and even your prophet condoned the rape of women prisoners of war:

Raping female captives with permission of the prophet:

Sahih Bukhari: Volume 7, Book 62, Number 137:Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri,
Quote: We got female captives in the war booty and we used to do coitus interruptus with them.
So we asked Allah's Apostle about it and he said, "Do you really do that?" repeating the question thrice, "There is no soul that is destined to exist but will come into existence, till the Day of Resurrection."

Sahih Bukhari: Volume 9, Book 93, Number 506: Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri,
Quote: That during the battle with Bani Al-Mustaliq they (muslims) captured some females and intended to have sexual relation with them without impregnating them. So they asked the Prophet about coitus interrupt us.
The Prophet said, "It is better that you should not do it, for Allah has written whom He is going to create till the Day of Resurrection....."

The prophet had no objection to the rape of those women but it was better that his soldiers 'didn't withdraw' = 'coitus interuptus'.

The problem with muslims is that they are not honest with themself and also therefore prefer to blame others?