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GUEST: Ruth Rosen, Historian and journalist, teaches history and public policy at U.C. Berkeley and is a senior fellow at the Longview Institute.

Five soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division are accused of raping and murdering Abeer al-Janabi, a 14 year old Iraqi girl, near the town of Mahmoudiya on March 12. A sixth soldier is accused of failing to report the crime. Three of al Janabi’s family members were also killed in the assault. Ruth Rosen, in an extensive article for TomDispatch.com, writes, “since the American invasion of their country, the reported incidence of sexual terrorism [in Iraq] has accelerated markedly… This specific rape of one Iraqi girl, however, is now becoming symbolic of the way the Bush administration has violated Iraq’s honor.”

Read Ruth Rosen’s paper here.