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CIA Official Accused of Raping Two Muslim Women

Station chief in Algeria under investigation

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 28, 2009 8:50 PM CST
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(Newser) – A CIA station chief in Algeria is under investigation for allegedly raping two Muslim women after knocking them unconscious with date-rape drugs, ABC News reports. The agency sent him back to the US in October after the women came forward a month earlier about the separate attacks. The allegations surface just days after President Obama made an overture to the Muslim world in an interview on Arab TV.

"It has the potential to be quite explosive if it's not handled well by the United States government," said a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Both women say the CIA official, identified as 41-year-old Andrew Warren, served them laced drinks and then assaulted them at his residence. Warren told investigators that he had sex with the women but that it was consensual. Seized videotapes appear to indicate otherwise.

The CIA is investigating one of its own.
The CIA is investigating one of its own.   (File)
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Guest
Jan 29, 2009 3:47 AM CST
No respect from Arab men. No respect from non-Arab men. Arab women need to wake up.
riffran
Jan 29, 2009 1:18 AM CST
IF this slimeball did what they say he did, punishment should be swift fair transparent, and brutal....sorry...but I have a very low tolerance for rapist and pedophiles........correct that....NO tolerance for rapist and pedophiles
Guest
Jan 28, 2009 10:38 PM CST
Why is it newsworthy that they were Muslim? The religion of the victims is irrelevant, rape is rape.

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