Friday, January 30, 2004


Returning female GIs report rapes, poor care
At least 37 allege assaults by U.S. soldiers overseas, little help afterward

Female troops serving in the Iraq war are reporting an insidious enemy in their own camps: fellow American soldiers who sexually assault them.

At least 37 female service members have sought sexual-trauma counseling and other assistance from civilian rape-crisis organizations after returning from war duty in Iraq, Kuwait and other overseas stations, The Denver Post has learned....