Iraqi Female Detainees Abused As Well

In an exclusive interview with The Guardian, Professor Huda Shaker, a political scientist at Baghdad University, said an Iraqi young girl was raped by a U.S. military policeman and became pregnant.

"The girl was called Noor. When I went to her house in Baghdad earlier this year she had disappeared. The neighbors said that she and her family had moved away," she asserted.

Prof Shaker, an Amnesty International researcher, recalled that a "female colleague" was arrested and taken to Abu Gharib.

"When I asked her after she was released what happened at Abu Ghraib she started crying," said noted.

"Ladies here are afraid and shy of talking about such subjects. They say everything is OK. Even in a very advanced society in the west it is very difficult to talk about rape. But I think it happened."

Few women released from U.S. detention have come forward to talk about their experiences in a Muslim society where rape is sometimes equated with shame, remarked The Guardian.

In its May 10-17 issue, the Newsweek said that yet-unreleased Abu Gharib abuse photos "include an American soldier having sex with a female Iraqi detainee and American soldiers watching Iraqis have sex with juveniles."