They also asserted this was done in retaliation for a rape from a year ago:
It also suggested that the weekend ambush was in revenge for the rape-murder of 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi by American soldiers in the area last year. Five soldiers have been charged in the case, and three have pleaded guilty.
"You should remember what you have done to our sister Abeer in the same very area," the statement said. "In the war against you, sometimes we win, sometimes we lose."
How awful can our troops be when the enemy has to reach back to last year for an old crime? A crime where troops have been charged with a crime! What, our daily depredations don't rise to the levels of this old incident? The enemy can't cite a new crime? Nothing? Not even jaywalking or something?
We're apparently pretty tame for a modern-day Mongol Horde.
