WASHINGTON, June 30, 2009
Ex-CIA Officer Charged in Algiers Rape
41-year-old Accused of Drugging and Raping at Least Two Muslim Women, Could Face Life in Prison
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Play CBS Video Video Ex-CIA Alleged Rapist Ex-CIA agent Andrew Warren leaves a Washington, DC courthouse today after being charged with rape.
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(CBS/AP)
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The 41-year-old Warren was accused of drugging and raping at least two Muslim women at his CIA-provided residence in Algiers in separate incidents dating back to September 2007. The alleged victims told a Diplomatic Security Service investigator Warren served them drinks apparently laced with drugs and then forced them to have sex. A search of Warren’s cell phone and digital camera uncovered multiple pictures of the two accusers and various other women.
An indictment against Warren, returned two weeks ago and unsealed today, refers to only one incident and one woman. But, it charges Warren with engaging in sex with a person who "was physically incapable of declining participation in, and communicating unwillingness to engage in, said sexual act."
Warren, who was ordered home by the State Department last October, turned himself in this morning and made a preliminary appearance in US District Court in Washington, D.C. In court, Warren pleaded not guilty to the single charge of sexual abuse, but he was forced to turn over his personal passport.
He remains free pending his trial. If convicted Warren could face up to life in prison.
The incident is an embarrassment to the CIA involving a top official serving in a very sensitive post. Algeria is a breeding ground for terrorism. An Algiers-based group called al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is suspected in a series of deadly bombings. In his position as station chief Warren worked with Algerian intelligence in counterterrorism efforts.
The State Department had no immediate reaction. A CIA spokesman said, "We will continue to cooperate with law enforcement in this matter, which involves a former employee who was fired earlier this year."
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- Innocent until proven guilty.
Remember OJ was given acquittal. - Reply to this comment
- WHAT? Are we supposed to find this to be surprising? I don't!
This guy is C.I.A.! It's not a sub-division of the Boy Scouts of America!
These people are scum. They jokingly are referred to as, crooks in action!
Unfortunately, they don't always confine their activities to people who have it coming!
I would bet this has happened before many times, but money and/or deals couldn't be made in this case! So, we just heard about this one!
It will be interesting to see what they ultimately do with him. I'd guess a slap on the hand, crap duty for awhile until the heat's off him, and
then redeployment somewhere else! - Reply to this comment
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- Please note, I know the article SAYS they fired him, but I don't believe that! That's really a 'public relations' thing! Now, he becomes a third party 'contractor'! For, contract work! CIA- once in, NEVER out!
- Please note, I know the article says he was fired. But, I don't believe that! That's a public relations thing! Now, he'll become a third-party contractor. He'll do contract work! CIA- once in, NEVER out!
- Well shows what a lot of our honest C.I.A. workers are truely like. so much for above sin aas republicians have insisted,, Got to be republician !!
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- Just another employee of the United States government... doing what they do best. Only difference was this guy did it to Algerian women instead of the American taxpayer.
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- The incident is an embarrassment to the CIA involving a top official serving in a very sensitive post.
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DUH.
CIA chief drugging and raping native muslim women....yeah, that's great for the cause.
What a pitiful excuse of a man. - Reply to this comment
- He's damn lucky that the Algiers government didn't get ahold of him before he left the country. That's probably the main reason he turned himself in - he knows he's safer in prison than on the outside.
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- Crazy straight people.
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