Juan Cole/Informed Comment: April 5, 2005

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Another Bombing at Abu Ghraib
Sunni Meeting Collapses in Acrimony

Guerrillas mounted another bombing attack on Abu Ghuraib prison (this one involving a tractor), leaving 5 Iraqi civilians wounded. On Sunday, a combination of car bombings and mortar attacks wounded dozens of Americans and Iraqis. The NYT reveals that a rumor is going around that Iraqi women are being held at Abu Ghraib and raped. (Given the evidence that surfaced last year, of sexual humiliation of prisoners and the rape of at least one woman, these rumors are found plausible by Sunni Arabs).