Abdu Rahman, Dahr Jamail, IPS News. March 16, 2010.
"The real ruler in Iraq now is the rule of old traditions and tribal, backward laws," says one expert, who says women have lost their freedom under the U.S. occupation.
Kavita N. Ramdas, Global Fund for Women. December 19, 2006.
The United States' so-called "liberation" of Iraqi women has made them less free than they were under the Baathist regime, with abduction, rape, and "honor" killings now a daily reality.