"I shouted at police when they came," recalled Rasha Obeid, a 25-year-old woman accused of supporting the insurgency. "I said I wouldn't accept arrest or anyone touching me... When I reached the prison, though, army officials started to touch my body and say bad words."

This is not very clear. The part about shouting and not accepting arrest sounds like resisting arrest to me. Were the police touching her as a matter of necesity to get her to her cell (or wherever), or were they sexually abusing her? Also, what bad words were they using? I'm nit saying that abuse did not happen here, just that the statement is too unclear to draw any conclusions.

well, the rest of the article is a little bit more clear, perhaps you didn't read it...

Women whose male family members are wanted for involvement in insurgency are often reportedly arrested in their place.

"The Iraqi Army raided my house searching for my husband, who was accused of being an insurgent," said Samira Kubaissy, a resident of Baghdad's Hay Jamia'a district, adding that she was beaten by army troops until she lost consciousness. "Because he was out at the time, they took me instead."

that really doesn't sound like a grey area... if the other one may sound like "resisting arrest", perhaps it does - from our perspective... it's deifnitely vague, but it's a translation to start... and that there's 240 recorded complaints by women against the police suggests that this isn't an overreaction...

puckalish - Right again. I got so caught up in the sexual harassment accusation (still seems vague) that I completely skipped over the issue of violence in general. Obviously beating a suspect unconcious is not acceptable behavior.

people, this is war. It would be nice to think we could impose our "human rights and dignity" viewpoint on war, but we cant. Why? laws of war always favor the powerful. in order to win, the weaker party must resort to total war. If i am going to fight a dude twice my size, the only way i could win is to go for his nuts, poke his eye or crush his adams apple. if i played by rules i would get killed.

Secondly, in war people are blowing the shit out of other human beings. body parts are littered about. brains blown out. Exposure to htis, and the need to survive cause people to lose touch with much of their ethical conciousness. It is kill or be killed. Those who survive and adapt are often the most brutal. The old saying, rape, pillage, and burn is for real. When might makes right, rape becomes a natural extension survival, of power and the will for the combatant to survive. This is not my evil point of view, it is historic fact.

Attempts to impose a better way onto war, in the end will fail. the "better way" is 100% dependant on our VAST military superiority. ie, we can beat them without requiring our soldiers to be legally sanctioned psychopaths because we are stronger. we want "rules of war" because with rules, we can't help but win. The other side are more extreme, more psychopathic, brutal, because THAT is all that they have to fight us with.

The idea of a cleaner war without the rape, pillage, burn mentality is unfortunately used as justification to get us into ill concieved conflicts. It is sick and wrong, but that is the nature of war, neccisary though they may unfortunately at times be.

nice site, good information, thank.

After the war between Iraq and USA,the USA military was staying in Iraq.So that they are trying to catch the people who are opposing their policies.In this way they are doing women insurgent raids on their houses. It is not good thing for US.They will try to stop their activities in Iraq.
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Stewart

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