by anonymoose » Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:13 pm
I posted this in the Reno Harnish thread but I think it's interesting enough to repost here.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1186558,00.html">www.time.com/time/magazin...58,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>A visit to the Khadamiyah Women's Prison in the northern part of Baghdad immediately produces several tales of abduction and abandonment. A stunning 18-year-old nicknamed Amna, her black hair pulled back in a ponytail, says she was taken from an orphanage by an armed gang just after the U.S. invasion and sent to brothels in Samarra, al-Qaim on the border with Syria, and Mosul in the north before she was taken back to Baghdad, drugged with pills, dressed in a suicide belt and sent to bomb a cleric's office in Khadamiyah, where she turned herself in to the police. A judge gave her a seven-year jail sentence "for her sake" to protect her from the gang, according to the prison director.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>