No exhumation of Iraqi rape/murder victim.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

I don't know if I'm happy that the victims will not be further degraded or fearful that the bastards who did it will get off.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060719/ts_nm/iraq_rape_dc_1

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Relatives of the Iraqi family at the center of a rape and murder case involving U.S. troops will not allow the victims' remains to be exhumed for forensic tests, the mayor of their community said on Wednesday.

"It is disgraceful to remove a body after burial," Muayyad Fadhil said by telephone from Mahmudiya, the town near Baghdad where the family of four was killed in their home in March.

"The family are refusing," he added, citing common Islamic religious objections to exhumations.

U.S. court documents in the case of Green indicate that other defendants say he killed three family members then raped Abeer al-Janabi and killed her too. They accuse one other soldier of raping the girl and a further two of being in the house during the killings.

[blonndee]

1. If her family didn't want it, I'm glad.

Can you imagine how much MORE outrage that would have caused? Not to mention just that it would have been wrong on principle to do so against her family's wishes.

Based on the statements so far, as long as something doesn't happen that they would be deemed inadmissible, I don't think the (alleged) perpetrators will get away with it.

[Mandate My Ass]

2. Didn't they burn her with some flammable material?

I doubt much of evidence value would be gained by doing this anyway.

In this country, mutilation of a corpse to hide the crime is an aggravating factor in a murder case. They have evidence of that element of the crime at least.

Why put the family through more agony?

[Crunchy Frog]

4. They tried to, but were not successful, IIRC. n/t

[blogslut]

5. Tried to do what?

Determine she was burned?

[Crunchy Frog]

6. From what I've read, I believe the assailants tried to burn her body

in order to destroy the evidence, but ended up only scorching it. It sounds like the body was more or less intact. Sorry for the lack of clarity.

[uppityperson]

3. RIP Abeer, rot in hell you "alleged" murderers

[ComerPerro]

7. The soldiers are gonna get away with it anyway