"Nobody is safe."

Today I read the article "No Safety for Women in Iraq" and I almost threw up. It's so disgusting, how American soldiers treat women. I really can't believe someone would have the heart to threaten anyone like this.

"I was taken by Americans for three days recently," Um Ahmed said in Baghdad. "They told me they would rape me if I didn't tell them where my husband was, but I really didn't know."

She said that she was turned over to the Iraqi National Guard "who were even worse than the Americans."

Her husband eventually surrendered to the U.S. military, but she continued to be held "to apply pressure on him to confess things he never did," she said. "They told him they would rape me right in front of him if he did not confess he was a terrorist. They forced me to watch them beat him hard until he told them what they wanted to hear."

The number of kidnapping have increased drastically since the two kidnappings in 2004. Many women that are kidnapped are raped, beheaded, or never seen again. There is a piece of the article that is a woman's 20-year-old son saying that he wished she had never been released because he found her body torn to pieces later in the year.

Disgusting.