U.S Justice to continue investigation on the CIA’s officer drug rape in Algiers

The U.S government launched investigation with a former CIA’s station chief in Algeria, Andrew Warren, after two Algerian women accused him of sexual assault, reported the U.S Justice Department Thursday.

• Algeria’s ambassador in Washington, Abdellah Bali, said the U.S authorities will inform the Algerian government about any details, and if the CIA’s officer is guilty he will be on trial as soon as possible”.
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• “I trust in the U.S justice and I feel sorry for the incident because it will affect the Algerian relations with USA. Algeria will continue its partnership with the USA despite any incident”.
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• The incident –according to the U.S Justice Department- was disclosed last fall, when two Algerian women approached the US embassy in Algiers and accused Warren of using drugs in order to facilitate his crime “rape” inside his residence in Algiers when he was a CIA station chief in Algeria. However Warren denied allegation and told the U.S investigators that the two Algerian women were engaged in consensual sexual intercourse”.
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• CNN reported that the U.S government started investigation as soon as it received the complaint and sent investigators to Warren’s residence in Algiers, where they found drugs, believed to be used in the rape. They also found 12 video tapes that showed him engaged in sexual intercourse with the two women who seemed out of consciousness, as well as some video tapes from his service in the Egyptian capital “Cairo”.
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• According to the file by the U.S Justice Department, Warren was accused of rape in September 2007, when he begun his mission in Algeria. The first woman reproached the U.S embassy June 2008 and the second woman reproached it February 2008. Warren returned back home after a “prepared visit”, then he was ordered to go to Algiers in order to continue his job.
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• “He collaborated with us through giving his mobile phone and camera voluntarily; there we found the two Algerian women’s pictures. However he refused to hand over his personal computer”. This statement by investigators, belonging to the U.S State Department, is evidence that Warren may be guilty.
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• “CIA would take seriously, and follow up vigorously, any allegation of misconduct, Algeria is a Muslim country” said CIA’s spokesman, Mark Mansfield.
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• “I’m sorry for this incident which harms both the CIA officer’s mission and America’s image,” said President of the U.S Senate.