Iraq clerics say rape case shows "ugly America"

Iraq clerics say rape case shows "ugly America"

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - News of the alleged rape and murder of an Iraqi woman by U.S. soldiers and the killing of her family "reveals the real, ugly face of America", Iraq's main organization of Sunni Muslim clerics said on Sunday.

The Muslim Scholars Association, a fierce critic of the U.S. occupation, was a rare voice raised in anger, however, with few Iraqi media willing to broach the taboo topic of rape since U.S. commanders revealed their investigation on Friday.

"(We) condemn this grotesque crime and say to the entire world ... it reveals the real ugly face of America," the Association said in a statement on its Web site.

"This act committed by the occupying soldiers, from raping the girl to mutilating her body and killing her family, should make all humanity feel ashamed.

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