**Philippine prosecutors on Tuesday charged four U.S. Marines with rape in what is seen as a test case for a bilateral accord allowing American troops to train here.
Prosecutor Prudencio Jalandoni filed charges of rape against the four Marines before a regional trial court in Olongapo, near the site of the alleged Nov. 1 rape, and sought their arrest and detention without bail.**
The men, who were on liberty after participating with joint exercises with Filipino forces, are in U.S. Embassy custody.
In documents submitted to the court, Jalandoni alleged that Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel Smith raped a 22-year-old woman inside a van at Subic Bay free port, a former U.S. naval base northwest of Manila, while his fellow Marines cheered him on to the beat of loud music.
Also charged were Lance Cpl. Keith Silkwood, Lance Cpl. Dominic Duplantis and Staff Sgt. Chad Carpentier. Their hometowns were not immediately available.
Citing accounts of the Marines, witnesses and a medical examination of the woman, Jalandoni said he and other prosecutors concluded that Smith raped her while his companions egged him on.
“The complainant claimed that she was forced, although the answering respondents claimed that the sexual congress was consensual,**” Jalandoni said. "We believe that the victim was raped. She was screaming and struggling against Smith at the time. **
The alleged rape has stirred emotions in the former American colony, and has been regarded by some as a black mark on U.S. counterterrorism training, which has been credited by Washington and Manila with helping Filipino troops crush many Muslim militants in the country’s restive south. http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2005/12/27/ap2415155.html
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Well what have we hear the great shaitan uS of da A back to its old tricks of going to foriegn lands and raping the women must make yanks proud at this time of the year to know thier boys are bunch of no good rapists and terrorists.**
This topic is about acid ? i think you will find its about the amerikan terrorist army on its xmas duty raping women in the phillipines i know its difficult but try and stick to the topic!
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I think raping women and throwing acid onto their faces is in the same ballpark of bad things to do to women. I guess American Men and Pakistani men aren't much different.
Wow so no aplogies for raping women the jewish and Amerikan mindset is to spin the story and blame others talk about a blameless culture no wonder the US has got a huge problem with rape looks like their military and social systems activley encourage it!
Wow rapist US marines must ameriKa proud of its Forces playing all those dumb patriotic songs on the TV flying the flag when the reality is they bunch of terrorists and rapists when truth is given to them they try an spin it and act like nothing happened typical kafirs hide the truth as much as possible!
I agree if a man rapes a women they should have acid thrown on them.
ak tries to take a horrible act that individuals commit and attaches a nation to them. If the U.S. ordered the raping of Iraqi women I would understand but they don't. Pakistani soilders have raped women, should they all be labled as rapists as ak does with the U.S. forces?
This act is horrible, and crucially the US Marines are being punished for it,
Now looking at our backyard, the number of rapes,murders, and violence commited by the Pak Army in its time is too numerous to count, and of course, Pak Army never soldiers never get punished.
What ever happens in the third world countries is very sad, but I can gaurantee you that worse happens right here in the US. Shame on you for trying to justify one wrong with another.