woiyo wrote:This is NOT a Federal Crime. Get over it.
Who should investigate it, then, Woiyo?
Are you indifferent to these rapes as well? It sure seems like that. If the girl who was raped was standing right in front of you, would you be so flip and just tell her to 'get over it?' I highly doubt it.
Cycloptichorn
Cycloptichorn wrote:woiyo wrote:This is NOT a Federal Crime. Get over it.
Who should investigate it, then, Woiyo?
Are you indifferent to these rapes as well? It sure seems like that. If the girl who was raped was standing right in front of you, would you be so flip and just tell her to 'get over it?' I highly doubt it.
Cycloptichorn
This should be investigated by the local authorities in Iraq and possibly the authorities in the Home State of the company involved.
As far as the rest of your rant, you have made bad assumptions before and you can add this one to your list.
Ask youself, do you really want the Bush Administration to investigate this or some other independant party?
Sometime you just make stupid comments.
woiyo; your arguments are weak and pathetic as well being sickening in the uncaring of a woman being gang raped by a company the state department is responsible for. The state department has already recommended the Justice Department prosecute the case; but so far they haven't done so. The state department must think the case belongs in the federal government or they wouldn't have recommended the case be prosecuted by the federal government. Dec. 14, 2007
The Department of Justice declined to prosecute a State Department employee who allegedly sexually assaulted a female Halliburton/KBR worker in Iraq, despite a recommendation from the State Department that he be charged, according to an internal document obtained by ABC News.
Ali Mokhtare, who is still employed by the State Department, was investigated in 2005 after a female Halliburton/KBR employee said he sexually assaulted her at the company-run camp in Basra, Iraq. Mokhtare was a diplomatic official in Basra who first came to Iraq as a Farsi translator interviewing detainees.
The U.S. Diplomatic Security Service investigated the allegations against Mokhtare and presented the case to the Justice Department for prosecution, but "the case was declined for prosecution" states the document.
Furthermore, investigators requested that the State Department suspend Mokhtare's security clearance, but according to a handwritten note at the bottom of the document, that request was denied.
Neither the departments of State nor Justice would comment for this article.
Tracy Barker, Mokhtare's alleged victim, is a mother of five from Fort Bragg, N.C. She says she wants Mokhtare to be prosecuted for attempted rape and assault.
"I'm an American citizen being assaulted by a State Department employee," said Barker "and nobody cares and nothing's being done about it."
Barker's attorney, Stephanie Morris, said the lack of prosecution sends a message to overseas contractors that it is a "free for all."
You are not going to be prosecuted and you are not going to be disciplined by anybody," said Morris.
Barker said that even the State Department agent assigned to her case, Lynn Falanga, advised her to sue the U.S. government when Mokhtare was let off the hook.
"She called me and my husband from her own home and said that the State Department was covering it up and that I needed to get an attorney and that they were going to let him continue assaulting people," said Barker.
My exact point in not wanting the Feds to investigate themselves.
For 2 years this poor gal has had nothing done on her behalf by the Feds and YOU want the Feds to continue investigation?
Your point has been proven to be weak and pathetic and and done nothing to determine what exactly happened to this woman.
How about wising up to the reality that the Feds will NEVER EVER be relied upon to investigate themselves!
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