Why arent i suprised that this wasnt reported in the pop news media?

More Abu Ghraib horror--involving women.

I wonder what Ann Coulter would make of this. I'm sure she'd find some way to blame feminism.

Female POW's in Abu Ghraib were raped and sexually assaulted.

During a visit to Abu Ghraib in March, Swadi said, one of the prisoners told her US soldiers had forced her to undress in front of them, an act that would be seen as particularly demeaning in conservative Muslim culture. At another detention facility in Baghdad, Swadi encountered a woman who said soldiers raped her. "She was the only woman who would talk about her case," Swadi told The Guardian. "She was crying. She told us she had been raped," Swadi said. "Several American soldiers had raped her. She had tried to fight them off and they had hurt her arm. She showed us the stitches."

And unlike the male POW's, the female POW's lives aren't worth jack right now. And the US Administration, which has gone on and on about the horrible oppression of women in the Middle East (and knew full well about honor killings) doesn't seem to mind.

According to Khamas, Swadi and others who are investigating assault cases, few women in Muslim cultures will come forward since they know rape survivors are often treated with shame and are sometimes killed as a means of preserving family honor.

Khamas and two other human rights workers have all said separately that three young rural women from the Sunni Muslim region of Al-Anbar, west of Baghdad, had been killed by their families after coming out of Abu Ghraib pregnant, Middle East Online reported.

I'm sure you have heard the huge outcry over this. Well, it's going to happen, I'm sure. Any minute now. . .really. . .

Geez, I'd better pack a lunch for the wait.

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