Friday, May 22, 2009

Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi



RIP Abeer and your family, saying Sorry is not enough for what you were put through that ended your precious life, RIP!!

Iraqis unhappy about life for U.S. rape soldier

"What the American soldier did is a terrorist act and he deserves execution," said Ahmed Samir Jaber, 27, a mechanic, from underneath the bonnet of an old car he was fixing in Mahmudiya, a dusty trading town on the edge of the desert.

"The court has not delivered justice. If I killed an American girl, the American court would have executed me."..........


Brother of spared ex-U.S. soldier tells Iraqi family: 'We're sorry'

A brother of a former U.S. soldier who was spared the death penalty has apologized to relatives of the Iraqi family the former soldier was convicted of murdering.

Steven Green was found guilty earlier this month of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdering her, her parents and her 6-year-old sister.

On Thursday, Green avoided the death penalty when a Kentucky jury could not reach a unanimous decision..............

1 comment:

Miriam said...

Am hopeful that a news item that I found in Al Jazeera news just now, from Feb 19 2014 was accurate in that it reports on Green having hanged himself in his prison cell in Arizona.
here: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/02/former-us-soldier-guilty-rape-found-hanged-201421943623992645.html

I share yr grief about this child, Abeer and her family...and for ALL the unknown Abeers and others sacrificed on the altar of Empire. Unbearable!