The Iraqi government has decided it will establish its own commission to investigate the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl by US soldiers. On March 12, soldiers broke into the home of the teenager, Abeer al-Janabi. According to military records, a U.S. soldier named Steven Green, herded Abeer’s mother, father, and five-year old sister into a room and shot them dead with an AK-47 rifle. Green and another soldier then raped Abeer, shot her, and set her body on fire in an apparent effort to cover up the crime. The Iraqi government investigation is going ahead despite U.S.-imposed rules that prevent the Iraqi government from prosecuting crimes committed by U.S. service members.