From: http://www.cbsnews.com/...
The women prisoners of Khadimiya jail had been waiting a long time for the chance to be heard, some shouting from behind bars:
"Our husbands were accused ... and we were arrested."
"Many of us have been raped."
"We were pregnant and lost our babies."
Almost 200 inmates live in the prison, many with their children. Some of the babies were born behind bars.
Most of the women are being held on vague terrorism charges, with little or no evidence and no hope of legal advice -- or even a court date.
h/t clarkista
More after the jump
We'll probably get no congressional hearings on this...worse still, this news probably will not get covered any further.
On DKOS every day we read about crimes from this administration. It would take hours to just list out the sheer number of these. But if we limit our selves just to Iraq, and only since 2003, even a partial list from memory is painful:
- Initial "Shock and Awe" -- massive bombing in Baghdad (you could see the "glow" a hundred miles away)
- Abu Ghraib -- a small exposure of how we treat our prisoners (that took a great deal of bravery by a single man, Joseph Darby
- Falluja, wherein an entire town had to pay for the deaths of just four Defense Department mercenaries (Blackwater), with 800 civilianskilled in the initial operation, the targeting of hospitals
- Rape, murder, and mutilation by fire of a 14 year old girl (and subsequently her family) by multiple marines. link
- Blackwater massacre at a traffic stop that killed 17
These are just the stories that are remembered by me. For each story above I am certain there are dozens more reported (like the one that started this diary), that will go unremembered by most of us.
Or, there was no Joe Darby to bring it to attention. Or even if there were a few more Joe Darby's the reports were quashed by their superiors.
Over a million human beings are dead. Millions more have fled. The number of wounded are unaccounted. What were the circumstances under which they died, fled, or were wounded?
We will never know. We won't even bother...to..find..out.
I remember GrannyDoc had a diary "They Are Bat Shit Crazy" excoriating Muslims for their behavior in the Sudanese Teddy/English Teacher issue:
....a culture that is bent on uncivilized, self destructive and completely nonfunctional positions on the values we espouse. We are watching millions of people, who are bat shit crazy, setting themselves up as the arbitor (sic) of life and death over teddy bears!!
If you took away the last three words of that paragraph, it totally applies to us today.