Alleged Libyan Rape Victim Tells All to Anderson Cooper: ‘My Life is in Danger’
- Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:35am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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If you believe Iman al-Obeidi’s story, it‘s one of the most heartbreaking you’ll hear. According to her, she was tortured and raped by pro-Gadhafi forces in Libya. Then, when she told the world what happened during an impromptu interview, she was whisked away and told to retract he story. When she didn’t, she was called a traitor. And now, she says, she fears for her life.
(Read our initial story on al-Obeidi.)
(Are Iman’s alleged attackers now making her the victim again?)
“My life is in danger, and I call on all human rights organization … to expose the truth and to let me leave now. I am being held hostage here,” al-Obeidi told Cooper in a TV interview via telephone. “They have threatened me with death and told me I will never leave prison again, if I go to the journalists or tell them anything about what’s happening in Tripoli.”
CNN reports:
Al-Obeidy said she spent 72 hours under interrogation after being dragged away from the Tripoli hotel where she tried to tell journalists about her alleged abuse.
Interrogators poured water on her face and threw food at her during the relentless questioning, which ended only after she was examined by a doctor to prove she had been raped, al-Obeidy said. “And when the test came, it verified that I was raped and tortured … then I was freed.” [...]
She said that when she tries to leave the house, officials chase her down and take her to a police station. But police don’t know what to do with her since she is not charged with a crime, and she is released.
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Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:49pmI Pray for her..I wish she could come to America..if I were wealthy–I would pay whatever it took to save her!
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:56pmI hope she stays safe and in her country.
Report Post »concealled9mms
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:48pmwas bill clinton in libya
Report Post »ChazzArtist
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:30pmShe lost me when she went out of her way to proclaim that they are peaceful people… not members of Al Qaeda and that they are peaceful people and moderate muslims… not extremists. I also thought it interesting that her captors were labelled “conservatives”.
Report Post »NatGuardMom
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:02pmThis woman is looking for a way to get to America nothing more nothing less.
Report Post »riverwomansdaughter
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:01pmWhy is the word “alleged” in the headline? Doesn’t the article itself say the doctors confirm her allegations?
My heart goes out to her – wish I had the means or know-how to sponsor her coming to America – the land where the vast majority of women are SAFE to go where ever they want to go, do what they want to do. America – for all the bad pr that the msm likes to heap on us – is the land of the FREE!
Report Post »RickyPatriotson
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:26pmCopper, Pull yur head out of your AP. The sun is bright and the moon reflects the sun’s light. Why on Earth should we retreat and let people die, we should flood their country with Mexicans and watch as the Mexicans do the work the Muslims refuse to do.
Report Post »That’s all I have to say about this.
entropy
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:05pmAnd the dumb liberal females in this country are all for the muslims coming over here. What idiots.
Report Post »outpost13
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:46amAny Proof ? Or is this more lies for headlines.
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:47amWhere is code pink?
Report Post »powhatan
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:46amIt amazes me how neanderthal the middle east is. Amazing that a society that pre-muslim was so advanced for its time and post muslim is such a failure.
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:37amThere is no equality for Muslim Women! And yet our liberal Women want to support those w ho would kill this woman. What are they thinking?
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:08amWe need to call in Whoopi Goldberg to learn if this was just rape or if it was rape-rape. Then, we can seek out the Jews who did it; Moslems never rape or rape-rape, after all.
Just ask a liberal for the finer details.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 9:25amOf course she is getting death threats. She was raped and therefore needs to be stoned for adultery. The Muslims can’t have “immoral’ people like her running around and corrupting their society. Shariah law, coming soon to your neighborhood.
Report Post »TheHardTruth
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:56pmLet’s give out some candy to celebrate her torture, shall we?
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 9:07amI guess little Andy couldn’t find any rape victims in the United States to interview. Shouldn‘t Andy be planning his next New Year’s Eve sex-joke laced freak-show, with his favorite co-host, the vile Kathy Griffin?
Report Post »matinva
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:20amAnd where is N.O.W. on all of this? Where they usually are when events like take place. Hiding. Now, if this had happened to Hillary Clinton, N.O.W. would be all over it, but since it only happened to a Muslim woman in another country, it’s all ok.
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:20amI’m sorry for what is happening to this woman and pray for her safety, however, we are not the police for the world. Libya is in a cival war and we should not get involved. The only thing we should do if anything is kill the mad man, however, we need to make it clear that we are doing it for our people that he killed and nobody else. We have to send the message that Reagan sent to the world, mess with us and die.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:36pmI agree, if they want things to change then they are the ones to do it. It is like La Raza wanting the left third of the US given back to Mexico. If they want what we have they need to change what they have. Taking back this real estate will not make Mexico better…it will just make it bigger. In the case of the Arab countries, the only way to have what we have is if they all become Christians.
Report Post »Liberty_Speaks2112
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:04amI think that we should grant people like her and her family assilum in the West. Because more reports like these can show the American people just how bad things are over there.
Report Post »Tracker2021
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:54amNow a word from the woman’s rights groups in America…..>silence<…..back to you.
Report Post »Tracker2021
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:53amA word from the woman’s rights groups in America on the violation of this women………>silence<….back to you.
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:34amAhhh……they too are busy suing construction workers that whistle at a woman in a mini skirts and halter tops.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:52am.
Report Post »Somebody get the rocks. There’s a party in the town square tonight. What a bunch of Sick O’s…………….
Gonzo
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:46amI’m sure Libyan officials will never see this video. Way to put your ratings ahead of her safety Anderson. At least you had the “oh so concerned” look on your face as you signed her death warrant.
Report Post »GayDem4Beck
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:04amJust as bad as Geraldo Rivera drawing in the sand, the enemy is over there, our forces are over here and we’re going to go around this point to stage our attack…. ALL LIVE ON AIR. Some reporters don’t think.
Report Post »NC
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:45amDoesn’t she need 4 witnesses to make these accusations or is the medical examination akin to a Chicago voter – he can vote four times.
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Report Post »Joseph28
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:35amNow heres someone that could really use asylum in the US
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:41amLike Politics in Chicago….this is the Muslim way.
Report Post »redneck
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 9:30amTake me to your home! I clean!
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:41amLadys, is this what we want in America? Do you want your mother, sister, etc. treated like this?
Report Post »copper
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:05pmSorry, I don’t buy her alleged story. If they had proved she was raped, she’d be dead – not talking to American Propaganda Machine on the phone.
There was too much push back on Obama for getting into this so they have to jinn up sympathy and support. These are not freedom fighters for democracy, they are terrorists/jihadists that have killed our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. We need to get out of all three.
Report Post »TheHardTruth
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:53pmI do not believe her story. She would be dead if the story were true. The Muslims are renowned for this type of fraud…she ran straight from the rapists to a hotel where reporters just “happened to be sitting and eating”? Please. It’s the same as the Palestinians do by showing “dead” bodies on TV – the same “bodies” that jump off the stretcher after the cameras are turn away….
She is being put up as a way for the Western world to “pity” her and further the mission to remove Ghadaf, allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to jump in and take over. Country – by country – freedom is becoming a distant memory…
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