Thursday, February 22, 2007













Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi was a 14-year-old innocent,helpless yet brave(she struggled ,she tried guys...come on ..a 14 year old...imagine when we were 14..and 4 men put us down...) Iraqi girl child who lived in the village of Mahmoudiyah southeast of Baghdad. Local officials and relatives had first said she was either 15 or 16, but her identity card and death certificate show that she was 14 years old.
ABEER, her parents and her 5 year sister were shot and killed in their home in Mahmoudiyah on or around March 12, 2006. A discharged U.S. serviceman, Pfc. Steven D. Green, was arrested and charged on July 3, 2006 with raping and killing Hamza and killing her father Qassim Hamza Raheem, 45, her mother Fakhriya Taha Muhasen, 34, and her seven-year-old sister, Hadeel Qassim Hamza.THE INCIDENT : The Al-Mahmudiyah incident occurred on March 12, 2006 in the town of Al-Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, Iraq in which five United States soldiers with the 502nd Infantry Regiment allegedly gang-raped and murdered a 14-year-old Iraqi girl named Abeer Qasim Hamza, after murdering her mother Fakhriyah Taha Muhsin, 34; her father Qasim Hamza Raheem, 45; and her sister Hadeel Qasim Hamza, aged 5 .
The matter came to light when an unidentified soldier reportedly revealed the crime during a counseling session on June 22, 2006 following the deaths of two other soldiers in the same regiment.The Qasim family lived in an isolated farm house situated approximately 200 meters away from a traffic checkpoint manned by US soldiers. The soldiers, who noticed Abeer as she worked in the field next to the house, formed a 6-man unit responsible for the traffic checkpoint. According to the neighbors, the accused soldiers had previously entered the farmhouse several times, ostensibly to search it, and had made advances towards Abeer in the days before the actual killing took place.This poor helpless child was stalked for atleast a week,her fault being she was beautiful and a helpless iraqi. Abeer's brother Mohammed, aged 13, who survived the attack along with his younger brother because they were in school at the time, said he witnessed one of the soldiers stroke Abeer's face during one of their visits to the house, a gesture that had terrified the girl.That soldier her brother came to know later was Steven Green ,a mentally deranged soldier which was proven to have "homicidal ideations"2 months prior to this crime.
Abeer Qasim Hamza was afraid, She was scared,if u look at her picture she looked scared then too,her mother confided in a neighbor. As pretty as she was young, the girl had attracted the unwelcome attention of U.S. soldiers manning a checkpoint that the girl had to pass through almost daily in their village in the south-central city of Mahmudiyah, her mother told the neighbor.“Abeer told her mother again and again in her last days that the soldiers had made advances towards her, a neighbor, Omar Janabi, said this weekend, recounting a conversation he said he had with the girl’s mother, Fakhriyah, on March 10. Fakhriyah feared that the Americans might come for her daughter at night, at their home. She asked her neighbor if Abeer might sleep at his house, with the women there. Janabi said he agreed. Then, ‘I tried to reassure her, remove some of her fear,’ Janabi said. ‘I told her, the Americans would not do such a thing.’Abeer did not live to take up the offer of shelter. Instead, attackers came to the girl’s house the next day,
According to the affidavit written by the FBI in support of an arrest warrant for Steven Green, the accused had discussed raping the girl in the days preceding the event. On the day in question, five soldiers of the six-man unit responsible for the checkpoint left their posts for the Qasim farmhouse. Four of the soldiers are alleged to have directly participated in the attack, while a fifth (PFC Howard) acted as lookout . A sixth soldier SGT Anthony W. Yribe, is charged with failing to report the attack but is not alleged to have been a direct participant.During a U.S. military court hearing testimony on Aug 7 ,2006 on how U.S. soldiers took turns to hold down and rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered her and her family,Special Agent Benjamin Bierce recalled how Baker testified that The girl, Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, and her father were standing outside their house.
The soldiers allegedly dragged them inside and pushed the man, his wife and younger daughter, 5, into a side room where Green stood guard over them.Barker's statement said Cortez pushed the girl to the floor and tore off her clothes as Barker held her down(DOES A 14 YEAR OLD CHILD DESERVE THIS MY FRIENDS?BEING DRAGGED DOWN AND HELD BY GROWN UP MEN WHO WERE THERE TO PROTECT TO HER?). She held her knees together and struggled as Cortez tried to rape her. SPC James P. Barker of the UNITED STATES ARMY described to him how he went into the living room of a house and held the hands of the teenage girl while Sergeant Paul Cortez raped the child.(Now as a human being ,just imagine the horror this child went through .Her fault was that she was a helpless little girl ,who was constantly stalked before her brutal rape and murder.Imagine your parents being shot in other room while some animals are raping you ,what must have gone through her mind?what was on the minds of their killers?that they could get away with such a heinous crime?).Special Agent Gary Griesmyer, who also testified on Aug 7 2006, said he questioned Cortez who confirmed how they changed their clothing and covered their faces to look like insurgents.Griesmyer said Cortez confirmed that he held the girl down as Barker raped her. The weeping child pleaded to be set free, but Barker told her to "shut up" after the rape, Cortez said, according to Griesmyer.Meanwhile, Green took the girl's parents and five-year-old sister into another room. Shots rang out and he came back, saying "They're all dead. I just killed them," the hearing heard.Green took his turn to rape the girl, then shot her dead with a captured AK-47 assault rifle. Kerosene was poured over the girl and someone -- it was not clear who -- set her alight, Bierce said, citing Barker's testimony.(So after murdering her family ,gang raping her they burnt her body to destroy the evidence)After the murders, the troops returned to their checkpoint 200 metres away and "grilled chicken wings", the statement said.
An Iraqi Army medic told how he was sick for days after finding the naked and burned body of a 14-year-old girl, allegedly raped and murdered by US soldiers.The doctor testified on the first day of the US military tribunal hearing set up to determine whether the five soldiers will face court martial for the rape and murder on March 12 of Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the killing of her parents and sister.The medic, whose name was withheld for security reasons, had been called to the house in the hardline Sunni town of Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad.He said he found the girl naked, her torso and head burned. She had a bullet wound under an eye."I was feeling very bad," he said. "I was sick for almost two weeks."A few weeks later a journalist recounted how he heard the accused rapist steven green say " I came over herebecause I wanted to kill people"
Abeer Hamza was raped ,murdered and burnt ,she was just 14 .On the 4th of july 2006 Luciana Bohne wrote this about ABEER Yesterday was Independence Day in the USA. I remembered Abeer Qasim Hamza, 14. She was said to be "pretty."
And scared.
I will not give you the details of her rape and death. I tried to last night. It gave me nightmares.
I planted a rose in her memory, and if a thorn pricks me and a drop of blood falls to the ground, I shall know that she once lived, just like me, but, unlike me, not for long.
She died young, perhaps green-eyed, as the poet said, and beautiful.

9 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

i hope they all burn in hell for the rest of their lives...sick bastards

1.3.07  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I CANT IMAGINE THE PAIN THIS CHILD WENT THROUGH,GOD BLESS HER AND MAY THE GUILTY BE PUNISHED IN A VERY SEVERE WAY

1.3.07  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

absolutely horrible and outrageous.punish them .

god bless the little girl!!

10.3.07  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Poor little child,i feel so sorry for her,What was her fault??She became victim of an unjust war .

Rest in peace beautiful.God bless you always

18.3.07  
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17.1.10  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

this has left a mark on me,how could anyone do this to a child. i hate the men who did this, these are sick men.of course some will be out too soon.that is what the army does. i will always pray for her and her 7 yr old sister and parents,and the surving brothers that were at school.this is unspeakable. i can not stop crying

19.2.12  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I had heard of this case but had never read the details until today. That poor little girl and her family. The men who did this are animals and deserve to be executed. Many people suffer during combat.....and they don't go rape and murder.

6.7.13  
Blogger linnette said...

And George Bush said, "They hate us for our freedoms."

17.6.14  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

rest in peace abeer. you're still and always will be remembered. �� may God grant you jannah inshaAllah.

13.12.16  

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