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Line 8: ''For full article see [[Mahmudiyah killings]]'' During the [[Iraq War]], a [[Mahmudiyah incident\|war crime]] took place in Mahmudiyah in March 2006 in which five soldiers of the [[502d Infantry Regiment]], raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, [[Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi]], and then murdered her, after killing her father Qassim Hamza Raheem, her mother Fakhriya Taha Muhasen and her six-year-old sister[[ Hadeel Qassim Hamza al-Janabi]]. The soldiers then burned the bodies to conceal evidence of the crime. Four of the soldiers were convicted of rape and murder, and the fifth was convicted of lesser crimes. Earlier, in late 2003, [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1037081,00.html The Observer] and [http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/iraq1003/5.htm#_Toc54183742 Human Rights Watch] reported a less volatile incident in Al-Mahmudiyah associated with the soldiers from the [[82nd Airborne]]’s 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.{{Vague\|date=February 2009}}

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