Iraqi women rights organization reported today “Women day” that not less than 2000 Iraqi women kidnapped and sold inside Iraq and abroad in the three years of occupation.

Yanar Mohammad, head of the woman rights organization said: crimes of the occupation are the major threat to Iraqi women rights, before women could go to work and study safely, today they are exposed to many threats such as kidnappings, murder and rape.

This announcement confirmed by the last accident happened to Iraqi girls students in Mosul when an American Military woman stepped inside their school bus asking them to take off their clothes.

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I personally think oppressing Iraqi women is part of the US “divide-and-rule” plan in Iraq,

In addition, the US occupation authorities - in an apparent effort of divide-and-rule - encouraged sectarianism by dividing up authority based not on technical skills or ideological affiliation but ethnic and religious identity.

John Simpson wrote about why there is “No reason for optimism in Iraq”