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September 23, 2007
The Rape

Neurotica is a Iraqi born women with a British passport working for some contractor in the Greenzone. She blogs:

He promised her his undying love. I will protect you he promised. Trust me, he said. I will protect you. He gave her freedom, or so he said. Freedom that he thought she deserved. But with this freedom, he also opened up every single wild animal’s cage on her. That was his vision of freedom. She can do what she wanted, he told her. Here, go and enjoy this freedom. You are free. You are finally free, he assured her. At first, she loved this so called freedom. It was something new. Something she never lived before, never experienced. She went out, she had fun, she would come back at dawn, alcohol and smoke smothered all over her. She didnt know what she was putting herself into. But she enjoyed it. She enjoyed this so called freedom.

One night, as she stepped outside her door getting ready for another "free and fun" time, a car stopped. A car filled with young lost guys. They too were looking for a free and fun time. They whistled to her, she ignored them. They shouted flirtatious comments, she continued walking in the dark alleyway. She is strong, she thought to herself. She is strong and she is free. She didnt care. He will protect her, trust me he promised. They followed her. You can hear their quick steps echo in the quiet of the night. Finally they caught up with her.

As one turned her around, the other slapped her face and forced her to the floor pulling at her long black hair. She fought back, kicking and screaming. He covered her mouth with his strong filthy hands. And so began the so called freedom. One by one, they raped her. One by one they raped her ferociously. At one time, there were 2 on her. One from each side. She cried, she kicked, she scratched their faces. But they didnt give up. Just before she was succumbing to her fate, just before she shut her eyes to go into that forever unconciousness, she saw a shadow. A shadow on the ragged twall that has filled up the streets. She forced her eyes open, her heart began to thump. She was going to get rescued. Yes. Yes finally, finally he came to her rescue. He finally came, just as he promised. He came to snatch her away from these animals. But the shadow, the shadow didnt move. He didnt move.

He stood there, stood there leaning on the filthy twall, smiling, smirking, his arms folded. He was there, he was there all the time. Watching, watching as she got raped. Watching as her legs were forced open and bled to death. He just stood there, getting excited himself as he watched these animals tear her flesh apart. He stood there, unscathed by the scene afore him. She got raped, Iraq got raped, but they stood there watching. We gave them freedom, they reasoned. Thats what they wanted. We gave it to them and they chose to abuse it.

Before she finally shut her eyes forever, she looked at him with her spearing hazel eyes and mouthed her last words to him. To him and to the world. She forced her beaten bleeding mouth open and whispered, "but I trusted you, I trusted you". And with that, she gave her soul up. Her Dying Soul…The Iraqi Dying Soul…

Posted by b on September 23, 2007 at 16:59 UTC | Permalink
Comments

wow

Posted by: annie | Sep 23 2007 18:31 utc | 1

Perfect.
O.I.L.

Posted by: beq | Sep 24 2007 0:36 utc | 2

The comments are so “clean”, almost “Lincoln Group” clean.
…just thinking out loud here.

Posted by: Rick | Sep 24 2007 2:49 utc | 3

The comments are so “clean”, almost “Lincoln Group” clean.
Lincoln Group, indeed. Sounds like an Ari Fleischer psyops project.
I smell <*]]]><...

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 24 2007 4:50 utc | 4

U.S. Aims To Lure Insurgents With ‘Bait’

A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of “bait,” such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then killing Iraqis who pick up the items, according to military court documents.
The classified program was described in investigative documents related to recently filed murder charges against three snipers who are accused of planting evidence on Iraqis they killed.
“Baiting is putting an object out there that we know they will use, with the intention of destroying the enemy,” Capt. Matthew P. Didier, the leader of an elite sniper scout platoon attached to the 1st Battalion of the 501st Infantry Regiment, said in a sworn statement. “Basically, we would put an item out there and watch it. If someone found the item, picked it up and attempted to leave with the item, we would engage the individual as I saw this as a sign they would use the item against U.S. Forces.”
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Posted by: b | Sep 24 2007 6:32 utc | 5

The comments are so “clean”, almost “Lincoln Group” clean.
…just thinking out loud here.
The comments maybe – but I doubt the “Lincoln Group” would have launched the rape analogy. That said – Neurotica is certainly not resistance but still somehow believes in the occupation she is part of.
I found the piece I excerpted quite relevant and fitting.

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2007 11:07 utc | 6

The bait thing is awful. My instinct would be to look around for a patrol, get the materials out of a public place so that some patrol didn’t see them and get suspicious.

Posted by: boxcar mike | Sep 24 2007 12:23 utc | 7

My instinct would be to look around for a patrol, get the materials out of a public place so that some patrol didn’t see them and get suspicious.
Snipers don’t patrol. They hide and shoot. You’d be dead.

Posted by: b | Sep 24 2007 13:53 utc | 8

recently filed murder charges against three snipers who are accused of planting evidence on Iraqis they killed.
this ‘bait’ idea is bogus imho. it is just the excuse they are using to avoid prosecution for a well known tactic, planting evidence after you commit a war crime.

Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 24 2007 15:55 utc | 9

9 was me.

The comments are so “clean”, almost “Lincoln Group” clean.
rick, all the popular iraqi blogs are totally infiltrated w/gov troll posters, without a doubt. they continually move the discussion away from US culpability and focus on how bad the terrorists are.
neurotica is a strong voice and has been blogging for quite awhile. her husband is in the iraqi army, she works for the us in the green zone, and her voice is very typically iraqi in that she does not think in unison and has very original thoughts.
the pro us commenters work hard on these comment sections keeping the regular peoples voice at a minimum and ganging up on the anti occupation crowd. i also have doubts about the regular anon commentor who comes onto all her comment sections and slams her calling her a war criminal for working in the green zone.
i spend a fair amount of time confronting these gov trolls. they are there to push the gov scenarios and avoid certain topics specifically hakim, dividing iraq, and the rearrangement of iraqs society based on sec.
that said, you can always spot the paid bloggers, it sounds like they are working fro a manual when they post.

Posted by: annie | Sep 24 2007 16:04 utc | 10

It is upsetting, and relevant (if perhaps not quite in the way it was intended.) Illustrating genocide with rape …it’s understandable that it is done .. but in my eyes the symbolic shift sort of trivilalises both rape and vicious occupation, and I can’t say why in one or two sentences.
(I read this as fiction, as even if the occasion described is real, the writing tries to elevate it beyond specifics to universality. Just to be clear, I don’t doubt that rape and worse is extremely common…)

Posted by: Tangerine | Sep 24 2007 16:46 utc | 11

RE ‘BAIT & SNIPE’–not a helpful thought here, but I keep getting the image/idea of the old trick of super glue and a quarter stuck on the floor.
–not funny if you picture a 9mm in place of the quarter and a lot of blood stains near it.
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RE ‘TROLLS’–I don’t know if this is true (I picked it up from a comment someone left elsewhere on the web–sort of a catch-22 thing going on, eh?) but here’s it is:
“State Department Blog Team Joins Muslim Debate:
Walid Jawad was tired of all the chatter on Middle Eastern blogs and Internet forums in praise of gory attacks carried out by the “noble resistance” in Iraq.
So Mr. Jawad, one of two Arabic-speaking members of what the State Department called its Digital Outreach Team, posted his own question: Why was it that many in the Arab world quickly condemned civilian Palestinian deaths but were mute about the endless killing of women and children by suicide bombers in Iraq?
Among those who responded was a man named Radad, evidently a Sunni Muslim, who wrote that many of the dead in Iraq were just Shiites and describing them in derogatory terms. But others who answered Mr. Jawad said that they, too, wondered why only Palestinian dead were “martyrs.”
The discussion tacked back and forth for four days, one of many such conversations prompted by scores of postings the State Department has made on about 70 Web sites since it put its two Arab-American Web monitors to work last November.”

Posted by: Steve | Sep 24 2007 19:49 utc | 12

More on “bait”

Captain Didier, in a sworn statement about the program that was obtained by The New York Times, described baiting as “putting an object out there that we know they will use, with the intention of destroying the enemy.”
After placing the bait, snipers observed the area around it, Captain Didier said in his statement. “If someone found the item, picked it up and attempted to leave with the item,” he said, “we would engage the individual, as I saw this as a sign that they would use the item against U.S. forces.” (Engage is a military euphemism for firing on or killing an enemy.)
The Asymmetrical Warfare Group, based at Fort Meade, Md., grew out of a task force created after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 to develop methods to defeat roadside bombs. Not all of the group’s tactics were meant for sniper units, and most of them have not been publicly disclosed.
For instance, the group last year advised “kill teams” from the Third Brigade, Second Infantry Division, to dig holes resembling those used by insurgents to hide roadside bombs, and to shoot Iraqis who tried to place things in the holes, said a soldier who was briefed on the program and who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid retribution.
The kill teams used the tactic not to kill people, but to wound them with gunshots and then capture and interrogate them, the soldier said. “It’s pretty common, and it’s pretty effective,” the soldier said in an interview. The soldier lamented the disclosure of the baiting and other anti-insurgent combat tactics because “it’s probably saving a lot of soldiers’ lives.”

Posted by: b | Sep 25 2007 5:51 utc | 13

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