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war crime in Iraq

The Mahmudiyah rape and killings were a series of war crimes committed by five U.S. Army soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, involving the gang-rape and murder of year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and the murder of her family on March 12, It occurred in the family's house to the southwest of Yusufiyah, a village to the west of the town of Al-Mahmudiyah, Iraq.

Other members of al-Janabi's family murdered by American soldiers included her year-old mother Fakhriyah Taha Muhasen, year-old father Qassim Hamza Raheem, and 6-year-old sister Hadeel Qassim Hamza al-Janabi.^[1] The two remaining survivors of the family, 9-year-old brother Ahmed and year-old brother Mohammed, were at school during the massacre and orphaned by the event.

Five U.S. Army soldiers of the nd Infantry Regiment were charged with rape and murder: Specialist Paul E. Cortez (born December ), Specialist James P. Barker (born ), Pri