By Steve Huff
July 6, 2006
MARION, N.C. (Crime Library) — On March 12, 2006 three Iraqi men approached a U.S.-manned Traffic Control Point outside Mahmudiya in central Iraq with a horrific story to tell. The family of 15-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamza, her mother, father, and little sister, as well as the teen girl herself, had been brutally murdered at their nearby home.
In a complaint filed with the United States District Court by FBI Agent Greg Ahlers on June 30, 2006, the agent alluded to the depth of the brutality visited on the family that day in March, based on crime scene photos. These photographs showed the victims, dead from gunshot wounds, and "the burned body of what appears to be a woman with blankets thrown over her upper torso."
The body was allegedly that of Abeer Qassim Hamza, the alleged target of the attack.
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| Steven D. Green - mugshot |
On July 3, 2006, one day before the 230th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a name was attached to this horrific crime, which initially was thought to be the work of "Anti-Iraqi Forces." Soon enough, a face followed, the mugshot made when the man was taken into custody published worldwide.
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