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Military Contractor Rape

By Corey Rayburnyung

The Nation has the story of a horrible set of rapes by military contractors in Iraq in Afghanistan:As news broke of the rape of yet another US military contractor employee in Iraq [see "Another KBR Rape Case" at thenation.com], the Senate Foreign Relations Committee convened a hearing April 9 to demand that the Justice Department explain why it has failed to prosecute a single sexual assault case in the theater since the Iraq War began. "American women working in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to be sexually assaulted while their assailants go free," said Senator Bill Nelson, who called the hearing. Because squabbles about who has jurisdiction in these cases have proliferated, Nelson arranged to have representatives from the Defense, State and Justice departments sit down together in front of him...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).