some serious war time news

Sorry for the long absence I've been really busy with classes. So I was talking today with this guy that I know. He also happens to be an expatriated Iraqi. He's spent some time in Iraq recently talking with a multitude of different groups for academic purposes. If you remember aa while back, there was a story in the news about Iraqi "insurgents" attacking a prison in Iraq. There were some casualties and no one actually escaped. At the time, I was really curious as to why the "insurgents" would do such a thing. The obvious reason for the attack was to create casualties. But Why? Today I found out. This gentleman, who shall remain name less, was telling me about U.S. military tactics in flushing out "insurgents" in Iraq. He said that when U.S. troops would roll up on a place that they believed to be controlled by insurgents they would search for men of fighting age that could be or were "fighting" against U.S. forces. If they didn't find any such men they would "detain" (read "kidnap") the women in the area, be it house, village or what-have-you. Then the U.S. forces would leave some sort of communication suggesting to the "insurgents" that if they wanted their women back then they should turn themselves in to the occupation authority. This, my Iraqi colleague explained, was counter to Iraqi culture. The problem was not that Iraqis do not care about women. The problem, he says, is that these women, some three thousand in number, have predominately and frequently been raped by U.S. soldiers and other members of the occupation force. Thus, there is great shame brought upon the women within the culture. This is why the "insurgents" attacked the prison in Iraq. Many of these women were being held there and it was preferential to these particular people to bring death to the women instead of returning them to the culture that will now ostercize them. Indeed, the occupation authority began to release some of these women and many of them took their own lives and many of them were killed by their family members as a way of coping with the shame. This kind of rape-warfare is not uncommon in armed conflict around the world, but this story seemed particularly poignant to me. This atrocity must be known. Peoples' live are being destroyed. In fact this particular revelation really ups the ante on the U.S. war of imperialism in Iraq. It not only brings to light a huge new category of U.S. perpetrated war crimes in the colony of Iraq, it also identifies U.S. occupation as an attempt, however unorganized, at genocide amongst the Iraqi people. In addition to the cultural genocide of U.S. occupation, and the systematic murder that is modern warfare, U.S. troops are systematically exterminating the women of Iraq, thus precluding propagation. I hate to be so grim but I really felt the need to share this information.
Thanks for reading,
G