Soldier describes genesis of rape plan
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - A soldier who pleaded guilty to conspiring to rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and kill her family described how he was approached by a fellow soldier with the plan to carry out the attack.
Spc. James P. Barker, one of four U.S. soldiers accused in the March 12 rape and killings, pleaded guilty Wednesday and agreed to testify against the others. He will avoid the death penalty, said his attorney, David Sheldon.
Barker told military judge Lt. Col. Richard Anderson that 21-year-old former Army private Steve Green approached him with a plan to attack the family as they drank whiskey purchased from Iraqi soldiers.
"He brought it up to me and asked me what I thought about it," Barker said. "By the time we started changing clothes, it was more or less a nonverbal agreement that we were going to go along with what we were discussing."
The plea agreement calls for Barker to serve at least life in prison. Anderson was expected to decide in a hearing Thursday whether Barker should be allowed to seek parole.
Barker, 23, described changing clothes, then climbing through backyards as the five soldiers left the checkpoint they had been manning to carry out the attack.
"We went through a chain link fence on the back of the property that had been cut on a previous patrol," he said.
The killings in Mahmoudiya, a village about 20 miles south of Baghdad, were among the worst in a series of alleged attacks on civilians and other abuses by military personnel in Iraq >>>cont
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Soldier Admits Raping, Killing Iraqi Girl
An Army specialist says he took part in the raping of a girl and the killing of her and her family because he hated the Iraqi people. (Nov. 15)
Barker described in vivid detail how he raped Abeer Qassim al-Janabi with Cortez and Green before Green killed the girl, her younger sister and parents.
These men are just as much collatoral damage for the thugs in the White House, as Abeer and her family where, they will not be thought of again by these thugs
Where are you O Whores of the Green Zone who write so prolifically of your love for the US Soldier? Where are you Bastards of Baghdad who sell your mothers to the invading armies? Where are you men of religion hiding under your turbans prostituting your Islam in the mosques of Qum and Mecca? FORT CAMPBELL, KENTUCKY: One of four U.S. soldiers accused of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl last spring showed little remorse and even smiled during a confession to charges he conspired to kill her and her family. (...) Where are you who celebrated the death sentence of Saddam? Why are you silent now? Have you no daughters? Have you no wives? Have you no karama? Have you sold it all for a few dollars? Have you not been punished enough, has Iraq not been decimated enough? Have you not learned? Have you not learned that Washington and London will not embrace you? But dispose of you after your charge is fulfilled? There is more to come. Much more...
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