Abeer’s national ID card, made when she was 2, shows her date of birth as August 19, 1991. Abeer Qassim Hamza was a 14-year-old Iraqi girl who lived in the village of Mahmoudiyah southeast of Baghdad. Local officials and relatives had first said she was either 15 or 16, but her identity card and death certificate show that she was 14 years old.[1] Hamza, her parents and her younger sister were shot and killed in their home in Mahmoudiyah on or around March 12, 2006. A discharged U.S. serviceman, Pfc. Steven D. Green, was arrested and charged on July 3, 2006 with raping and killing Hamza and killing her father Qassim Hamza Raheem, 45, her mother Fakhriya Taha Muhasen, 34, and her seven-year-old sister, Hadeel Qassim Hamza. Mahmoudiyah is an Iraqi village southeast of Baghdad. ...
Location of Baghdad within Iraq Baghdad (Arabic: â translit: , Kurdish: Bexda, from Persian Baagh-daad or Bag-Da-Du meaning âGarden of Godâ [1]) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ...
Former Army soldier Steven D. Green (center) is escorted by U.S. Marshals from United States Federal Courthouse in Charlotte, North Carolina Steven Dale Green (born 1985) is a former Private First Class in the United States Army who is charged with the murder of four Iraqi civilians while on...
Fakhriya Taha Muhasen was an Iraqi woman who lived in the village of Mahmoudiyah southeast of Baghdad. ...
Military investigators believe that Green and as many as four other soldiers were involved in the commission of the murders while on active duty. A criminal affidavit filed in federal court states that Green and one other participant raped Hamza and that Green killed all four individuals himself.
References
- ^ Josh White. "Ex-Soldier Charged in Killing of Iraqi Family", The Washington Post, July 03, 2006, p. A01. Retrieved on July 4, 2006.
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See also The Al-Mahmudiyah incident occurred on March 12, 2006 in the town of Al-Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, Iraq. ...
Fakhriya Taha Muhasen was an Iraqi woman who lived in the village of Mahmoudiyah southeast of Baghdad. ...
Former Army soldier Steven D. Green (center) is escorted by U.S. Marshals from United States Federal Courthouse in Charlotte, North Carolina Steven Dale Green (born 1985) is a former Private First Class in the United States Army who is charged with the murder of four Iraqi civilians while on...
Mahmoudiyah is an Iraqi village southeast of Baghdad. ...
External Link - Iraq girl in troops rape case just 14
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