US soldier charged with rape, murder in Iraq
Reuters, Baghdad
An American was charged on Monday with raping and murdering an Iraqi teenager after killing her parents and young sister while serving as a soldier in Iraq. Three other troops may have been part of the crime in March. Revealed last week and denounced by clerics as showing the "real, ugly face of America," the case could be particularly damaging to the US image in Iraq's conservative Muslim society even after several other murder cases in the past few weeks. Discharged soldier Steven Green, 21, appeared in court in Charlotte, North Carolina, on a charge from a federal prosecutor in Kentucky that he went with three others to a house near Mahmudiya, just south of Baghdad, to rape a woman there.
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