(from "Non-violence is on the way", No. 1402, August 29, 2006; nbawac@tin.it
Robin Morgan : Her name was Abeer
thank Maria G. Di Rienzo (contacts: sheela59@libero.it )
for having made available the following in his translation
Robin Morgan's article. Robin Morgan, 'born in Lake Worth, Florida in 1941, and
lives and works in New York; poet, essayist, novelist, journalist, and 'by 70
one of the most' lives of the women's movement. Among his works available in Italian
: an interview by Maria Nadotti,
Cassandra do not live longer 'here, La Tartaruga, Milano 1996; Sexuality',
violence and terrorism, La Tartaruga, Milano 1998, 2003, his new book, Fighting Words
, will be 'published in September by Nation Books]
My birthday on Aug. 19, the day of his death' was
on 12 March. We can not allow even this crime of being forgotten. When and
'emerged in the press that U.S. soldiers had harassed,
terrified and finally made up a gang rape an Iraqi woman,
the U.S. has tried to minimize the latter atrocities' committed by
our troops, saying that the victim was 25 or even 50, as if a rape followed by
murder when the victim was less horrible and '
an adult woman.
Now the preliminary hearing ended at Camp Liberty,
an American base in Iraq (U.S. troops are not subject to Iraqi criminal
). In September, a general will decide 'whether the accused should
appear before the court martial. The defense has already 'claimed
exculpatory evidence as the "post-traumatic stress disorder" in the four months
preceding the crime of the accused 17 members of the battalion were killed
, their company, Bravo, suffered 8 killed in fighting
.
But even if the U.S. fails to provide the identity 'of the victim's
investigators knew her name: Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi.
Abeer means "fragrance of flowers." He was 14.
The soldiers noticed her at a checkpoint.
began to follow her and stalked her after a couple of them expressed his intention to rape her
. On 12 March, after playing cards and shuffled the
whiskey to an energy drink, and after trying to shoot some golf,
wore civilian clothes and blacks broke
Abeer's house in Mahmoudiya, a city 'fifty miles south of Baghdad.
have killed her mother Fikhriya, father Qassim, and five years of her sister, Hadeel
with bullets to the forehead, then "took turns" raping Abeer
. Finally, they murdered her, drenched the bodies with kerosene, and
them on fire to destroy evidence. Then the soldiers have gone to
roast chicken wings on the grill.
* These details are from a sworn statement by Spc James P.
Barker, one of the accused along with Sgt Paul Cortez, Pfc
Jesse Spielman, and Pfc Bryan Howard, a fifth, Sergeant Anthony Yribe
, and ' accused of not reporting the incident, but not having participated
. Then there
'former Pfc Steven Green. Discharged in May for
"personality disorder, '" Green,' was arrested in North Carolina
, and is 'declared not guilty in federal court, and it'
being held without bond. It 's the most scapegoat'
convenient, since 'his squad leader testified how often
Green has said he hates all Iraqis and want them to kill everyone.
The company commander said that Green had "serious problems
of anger." In short
who and 'bad apple "? A good guy in Midland, Texas. "If
want to understand me, "says President Bush," you need to understand Midland.
Steven Green understands, Midland, was his home until his parents divorced and his mother
replied, 'when he was eight years old, and was already '
constantly in trouble at school. Not for' high school, and joined '
in 2005. He immersed himself in a chapel baptismal pool at Fort Benning, Georgia,
getting "born again" while being trained to kill legally and
to die heroically. He was 19 years and three convictions: fighting,
access to alcohol, and drug possession.
Once, the Army would have rejected.
But he enlists' when the army , desperate for The shortage '
of new arrivals, I begin' to rise by about half, 'the degree to which allows
what' he calls 'morality' deferred "to potential recruits.
According to the Pentagon, the "delayed" in 2001 were 7,640, and are
rose to 11,018 in 2005. The 'morality' deferred
allows the recruitment of people with criminal records, emotional problems and weak educational backgrounds
, which teach how to use machine guns and rocket launchers.
After that, if they survive, will be called heroes and reintegrated into society '.
* The U.S. military and 'now a mercenary force. In addition to hired militias
and the "contractors" independent, we have a detachment
specifically, that of the poor. This explains why 'the army and' so '
disproportionately full of people of color, seeking education,
access to health and home. But the army from 'them even more:
adolescent males, in their wake hormonal
are taught to confuse their bodies with their weapons and release their energy in this way
. A song
dÃaddestramento, well known, accompanied by obscene gestures, says
"This 'my rifle, this and' my gun and a 'to kill, and
another and' to have fun." The U.S. Air Force admits violent pornographic movies
show the pilots before their
of bombing missions. The military manuals
regurgitate phrases such as "launchers erected", "ration pressures," "territorial penetration
deep and hard," "potent nuclear hardness." There are also "soft targets
. What does this mean? Civilians. *
Feminist scholars have exposed these connections
phallocentric military for decades. When I wrote The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism
(latest edition Washington Square Press, 2001), have many more
'evidence than space here allows me to expose the mystique of
terrorism and the legend of sticking
both from the same root: the patriarchal conception of masculinity '. How can
'rape not be central to the propaganda that wants
erotic violence, a pervasive message that infects everything from
U.S. foreign policy (afflicted with premature ejaculation), fashionable
"military camouflage chic" and "style band of gangsters?
This definition of masculinity 'and' toxic to humans and lethal
for women. But the effort dell'atrocita 'and' become stable. Was it not rape
the main product of the war, long before the Iliad?
not have been raped 100,000 women and girls in brothels-
death camps in former Yugoslavia? They have the Somali clan fighters, in the 90s, some time in the company of troops
UN peacekeeping, raped "women
each other? And five Somali survivors of rape, then
not been stoned to death by Islamists for 'adultery'? It had not
ignored reports from a small, troublesome country,
on rapes committed by groups in the villages called Interahamwe ("Our heroic
boys")? In the end, affects only women, and who had never heard about that place
, Rwanda.
Pero 'the Pentagon' upset. "It can not 'be nice
of our American soldiers. Must be a few bad apples." We already 'forgotten
Abu Ghraib? The pictures of men tortured sexually abound, but
photos of the humiliated and abused women are still classified, for fear of a reaction
worldwide outrage even more.
We already have 'forgotten the two marine and a sailor kidnapped twelve
Okinawa in 1995, beat the purple and the
abandoned naked in a desert area? In some way, and 'them survived and
reported, although his "post-traumatic stress disorder," the torments
undoubtedly more. So 'many rapes were committed by the army in
Okinawa, Korea and the Philippines, the Asian feminists have organized
whole protest movement.
accidents continue to happen around ports and the U.S. bases, including the hundreds
of complaints of women in the army of rapes suffered by their fellow soldiers (and the current joint
epidemic of rapes and "evangelism"
U.S. Military Aviation Academy).
In 1998, a UN decision that serves as a milestone
recognized rape as a war crime, and this 'raises a question: If
rape during war and' a crime against humanity ', what is' in peacetime?
The international tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia has initiated
processes and issued sentences using the legal terms relating to sexual violence
.
Occasionally, some nice American boys are recognized
guilty, how could it happen to Green and his companions.
Then everything comes back "normal." The culprits are being sacrificed to preserve the
rank of those who have trained to do what they did, and
save the careers of politicians who are obscenely sermons on "moral values
" while allowing "morality 'deferred'.
But this crime we can not let it fall on deaf ears. He was 14 and her name was Abeer
. It means "fragrance of flowers."
Robin Morgan : Her name was Abeer
thank Maria G. Di Rienzo (contacts: sheela59@libero.it )
for having made available the following in his translation
Robin Morgan's article. Robin Morgan, 'born in Lake Worth, Florida in 1941, and
lives and works in New York; poet, essayist, novelist, journalist, and 'by 70
one of the most' lives of the women's movement. Among his works available in Italian
: an interview by Maria Nadotti,
Cassandra do not live longer 'here, La Tartaruga, Milano 1996; Sexuality',
violence and terrorism, La Tartaruga, Milano 1998, 2003, his new book, Fighting Words
, will be 'published in September by Nation Books]
My birthday on Aug. 19, the day of his death' was
on 12 March. We can not allow even this crime of being forgotten. When and
'emerged in the press that U.S. soldiers had harassed,
terrified and finally made up a gang rape an Iraqi woman,
the U.S. has tried to minimize the latter atrocities' committed by
our troops, saying that the victim was 25 or even 50, as if a rape followed by
murder when the victim was less horrible and '
an adult woman.
Now the preliminary hearing ended at Camp Liberty,
an American base in Iraq (U.S. troops are not subject to Iraqi criminal
). In September, a general will decide 'whether the accused should
appear before the court martial. The defense has already 'claimed
exculpatory evidence as the "post-traumatic stress disorder" in the four months
preceding the crime of the accused 17 members of the battalion were killed
, their company, Bravo, suffered 8 killed in fighting
.
But even if the U.S. fails to provide the identity 'of the victim's
investigators knew her name: Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi.
Abeer means "fragrance of flowers." He was 14.
The soldiers noticed her at a checkpoint.
began to follow her and stalked her after a couple of them expressed his intention to rape her
. On 12 March, after playing cards and shuffled the
whiskey to an energy drink, and after trying to shoot some golf,
wore civilian clothes and blacks broke
Abeer's house in Mahmoudiya, a city 'fifty miles south of Baghdad.
have killed her mother Fikhriya, father Qassim, and five years of her sister, Hadeel
with bullets to the forehead, then "took turns" raping Abeer
. Finally, they murdered her, drenched the bodies with kerosene, and
them on fire to destroy evidence. Then the soldiers have gone to
roast chicken wings on the grill.
* These details are from a sworn statement by Spc James P.
Barker, one of the accused along with Sgt Paul Cortez, Pfc
Jesse Spielman, and Pfc Bryan Howard, a fifth, Sergeant Anthony Yribe
, and ' accused of not reporting the incident, but not having participated
. Then there
'former Pfc Steven Green. Discharged in May for
"personality disorder, '" Green,' was arrested in North Carolina
, and is 'declared not guilty in federal court, and it'
being held without bond. It 's the most scapegoat'
convenient, since 'his squad leader testified how often
Green has said he hates all Iraqis and want them to kill everyone.
The company commander said that Green had "serious problems
of anger." In short
who and 'bad apple "? A good guy in Midland, Texas. "If
want to understand me, "says President Bush," you need to understand Midland.
Steven Green understands, Midland, was his home until his parents divorced and his mother
replied, 'when he was eight years old, and was already '
constantly in trouble at school. Not for' high school, and joined '
in 2005. He immersed himself in a chapel baptismal pool at Fort Benning, Georgia,
getting "born again" while being trained to kill legally and
to die heroically. He was 19 years and three convictions: fighting,
access to alcohol, and drug possession.
Once, the Army would have rejected.
But he enlists' when the army , desperate for The shortage '
of new arrivals, I begin' to rise by about half, 'the degree to which allows
what' he calls 'morality' deferred "to potential recruits.
According to the Pentagon, the "delayed" in 2001 were 7,640, and are
rose to 11,018 in 2005. The 'morality' deferred
allows the recruitment of people with criminal records, emotional problems and weak educational backgrounds
, which teach how to use machine guns and rocket launchers.
After that, if they survive, will be called heroes and reintegrated into society '.
* The U.S. military and 'now a mercenary force. In addition to hired militias
and the "contractors" independent, we have a detachment
specifically, that of the poor. This explains why 'the army and' so '
disproportionately full of people of color, seeking education,
access to health and home. But the army from 'them even more:
adolescent males, in their wake hormonal
are taught to confuse their bodies with their weapons and release their energy in this way
. A song
dÃaddestramento, well known, accompanied by obscene gestures, says
"This 'my rifle, this and' my gun and a 'to kill, and
another and' to have fun." The U.S. Air Force admits violent pornographic movies
show the pilots before their
of bombing missions. The military manuals
regurgitate phrases such as "launchers erected", "ration pressures," "territorial penetration
deep and hard," "potent nuclear hardness." There are also "soft targets
. What does this mean? Civilians. *
Feminist scholars have exposed these connections
phallocentric military for decades. When I wrote The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism
(latest edition Washington Square Press, 2001), have many more
'evidence than space here allows me to expose the mystique of
terrorism and the legend of sticking
both from the same root: the patriarchal conception of masculinity '. How can
'rape not be central to the propaganda that wants
erotic violence, a pervasive message that infects everything from
U.S. foreign policy (afflicted with premature ejaculation), fashionable
"military camouflage chic" and "style band of gangsters?
This definition of masculinity 'and' toxic to humans and lethal
for women. But the effort dell'atrocita 'and' become stable. Was it not rape
the main product of the war, long before the Iliad?
not have been raped 100,000 women and girls in brothels-
death camps in former Yugoslavia? They have the Somali clan fighters, in the 90s, some time in the company of troops
UN peacekeeping, raped "women
each other? And five Somali survivors of rape, then
not been stoned to death by Islamists for 'adultery'? It had not
ignored reports from a small, troublesome country,
on rapes committed by groups in the villages called Interahamwe ("Our heroic
boys")? In the end, affects only women, and who had never heard about that place
, Rwanda.
Pero 'the Pentagon' upset. "It can not 'be nice
of our American soldiers. Must be a few bad apples." We already 'forgotten
Abu Ghraib? The pictures of men tortured sexually abound, but
photos of the humiliated and abused women are still classified, for fear of a reaction
worldwide outrage even more.
We already have 'forgotten the two marine and a sailor kidnapped twelve
Okinawa in 1995, beat the purple and the
abandoned naked in a desert area? In some way, and 'them survived and
reported, although his "post-traumatic stress disorder," the torments
undoubtedly more. So 'many rapes were committed by the army in
Okinawa, Korea and the Philippines, the Asian feminists have organized
whole protest movement.
accidents continue to happen around ports and the U.S. bases, including the hundreds
of complaints of women in the army of rapes suffered by their fellow soldiers (and the current joint
epidemic of rapes and "evangelism"
U.S. Military Aviation Academy).
In 1998, a UN decision that serves as a milestone
recognized rape as a war crime, and this 'raises a question: If
rape during war and' a crime against humanity ', what is' in peacetime?
The international tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia has initiated
processes and issued sentences using the legal terms relating to sexual violence
.
Occasionally, some nice American boys are recognized
guilty, how could it happen to Green and his companions.
Then everything comes back "normal." The culprits are being sacrificed to preserve the
rank of those who have trained to do what they did, and
save the careers of politicians who are obscenely sermons on "moral values
" while allowing "morality 'deferred'.
But this crime we can not let it fall on deaf ears. He was 14 and her name was Abeer
. It means "fragrance of flowers."
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