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War on Iraq

For Female Soldiers, Sexual Assault Remains a Danger

By Celina R. De Leon, AlterNet. Posted January 5, 2007.


According to the Pentagon, there were 2,374 reported cases of sexual assault against women in uniform over the past year. But as the saga of military police officer Suzanne Swift shows, numbers alone don't tell the whole story.

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Celina R. De Leon is a contributing writer for WireTap magazine, and interviews editor at Feministing.com. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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