Iraqi PM Says Country Should Investigate Rape, Murder Charges
05 July 2006
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki says his government must be involved in the investigation into the alleged rape and murder of an Iraqi teenage girl and three members of her family by U.S. soldiers.
Mr. Maliki also said during a visit to Kuwait Wednesday that his government will reconsider the immunity granted to members of coalition forces. He said the immunity from prosecution has encouraged them to commit such crimes in "cold blood."
A 21-year-old former U.S. Army soldier, Steven Green, was charged in the case Monday in a U.S. federal court in the southern state of North Carolina. Other soldiers are under U.S. investigation.
In Baghdad Wednesday, a car bomb killed six people and injured at least 14 others. The bomb went off near a mosque in a mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhood.
In the Iraqi insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, meanwhile, U.S. and Iraqi forces raided a hospital today they said has been used by insurgents as a safe haven to launch mortar and sniper attacks.
The U.S. commander in Ramadi, Colonel Sean MacFarland, said the hospital also has been the scene of murders and intimidation against the people of Ramadi by terrorists. Ramadi is west of Baghdad.
Elsewhere, a suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Mosul, killing a policeman and a civilian. And a roadside bomb killed one person near Kirkuk.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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