Female Hand-To-Hand Combat in Iraq

by T. Trolley

As you read the stories in your newspaper about the fighting in Iraq, did you ever wonder if two female soldiers from the Fedayeen and the U.S. ever fought hand-to-hand? And, if it ever happened, who would win?

It's one thing for two women to fight in a competition on the mat or in the ring in a friendly -- or even not-so-friendly -- competition. The biggest thing at stake in that case would be the two women's pride -- if that.

But what would happen if a female soldier from the U.S. met a female soldier from the Fedayeen in Iraq in a woman-to-woman, hand-to-hand combat situation where the stakes were life and death -- or perhaps even greater than life and death!

What stakes could even be higher than life and death, you ask?

Consider this.

The renegade Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr recently declared that any member of the insurgency who captured a female American soldier could keep her as a slave.

Note: "Any member of the insurgency." Most of us see that as referring to a male member of the insurgency who would enslave a female soldier.

But there are female Fedayeen soldiers fighting in Iraq as well. And wouldn't a female Fedayeen member love to capture an American female soldier and make her HER SLAVE?

Such as was the case with Arwa.

Arwa, a petite 18-year-old, 5-0 and 100 lb. Iraqi beauty with long, jet black hair, trained in the desert to kill invading Americans. She was a female "Fedayeen" or Saddam loyalists and members of all-girl units. Such units were the norm during Saddam's regime. Thousands of female students regularly trained with army units during their summer school holidays. There were female student militias outside Iraq, as well. "Many girls train like this," Arwa said. "It's normal in Iraq."

"We love Saddam Hussein very much," declared Arwa after she finished her training time in the desert. "He was kind. We were safe, even when there were wars. He gave opportunities to Iraqi women. We don't want the American army walking in our streets. We prefer death. We must take them out of here, over our dead bodies."

Arwa lived off six months food rations at home while the all-girl paramilitary unit planned a counterattack. And with Sadr's declaration, Arwa was now looking for an American female soldier to either kill -- or make her slave!

And the pretty Sue turned out to be a perfect candidate!

Sue had heard Sadr's declaration. But to Sue, that was just a meaningless threat from a doomed insurgent leader.

Sue, an attractive 18-year-old short-haired brunette who was 5-5 and 117 lb., joined the Army after one year of college. She had dropped out when she realized college wasn't for her and had floated from job to job until landing in the services. The pretty little brunette from New Jersey ended up in Iraq as a member of the infantry.

Just the kind of girl Arwa, following Sadr's declaration, would love to capture and enslave!

During a respite and away from the rest of her platoon, Sue decided to take a dip in a river to cool off. She stripped down to her bra and panties and dove into the cool river. After she was done, she swam back to the river's edge and went into a nearby building to change.

But she wasn't alone!

Sue came face to face with -- Arwa! Arwa had also made the exact same swim! Now both women were face to face with their female enemy in their underwear!

And, with Sadr's announcement and the discovery of what many Iraqi's had experienced as prisoners in American hands, both knew they did NOT want to be taken prisoner by the other!

Both women knew what they had to do. If Sue was taken prisoner, she knew she would become the slave of the adversary she faced! Arwa knew this as well and liked the idea of having Sue as her slave! But she also knew that she couldn't become the prisoner of Sue in lieu of the recent stories of mistreatment other Iraqis had faced in American prisons!

Neither woman had a weapon available to them and the small room they were in was empty. At first, the potential scenario of hand-to-hand combat to the death did not even cross either woman's mind.

The Fedayeen female soldier boldly announced to Sue, "You are now my prisoner -- and my slave!"

The statement stunned Sue! She knew that she faced a moment of truth as the Iraqi woman reached out and grabbed her by the arm to take control of her!

Sue, realizing she was bigger than Arwa, suddenly pulled her arm away and said, "NO! You are MY prisoner!"

As they stared at each other, they both realized that this would be one of the rare times where two women would have to fight each other in hand-to-hand combat and they would use their bare hands to subdue -- and possibly slay --the other!

This type of scenario happened all the time in close quarters during war involving male soldiers. Two men went at it and, in many instances, one man would come out of the battle as not only the better man but the
only man alive. That was not abnormal in this war or any war.

But the idea of two women forced to face each other in the same scenario where, as Darwin would say, the stronger female survives while the weaker perishes, is very rare indeed. 

As they came to realize that they were in the very same situation that men on opposite sides of the war experienced on a daily basis, a feeling of shock as well as fear entered both of them. They both had come face-to-face with a woman whom they would have to actually subdue with their own untested physical strength or else become the prisoner/slave of the other at the hands of their potential female conqueress -- or even perhaps die at the hands of their female enemy!

They both knew what they had to do! Not only would they be fighting for their very lives, but they would be fighting for their countries!

Sue, though a light woman, was bigger than her Fedayeen adversary and tried to get the jump on her, lunging at Arwa and grabbing her by the throat with both hands! Sue forced Arwa back due to her size advantage as her Fedayeen opponent pulled at Sue's hands in an attempt to escape! Sue's grasp came loose as both women fell to the floor!

The two began to roll over and over around the hard floor, pulling at each other's hair and crying out in pain and fear! Each woman knew what was at stake and were frightened about losing the fight, realizing the potential repercussions!

Sue got on top of her smaller foe and tried to punch her, but the Fedayeen woman rolled her off of her, got on top of her, and got a solid punch into Sue's face! Sue yelped in pain and Arwa punched her in the face again! She then grabbed Sue by the throat and leaned into her, trying to choke the pretty brunette with her bare hands!

Sue tried to pull her foe's hands from around her throat, but Arwa was pushing and squeezing hard! Sue's mouth began to gasp for air! Sue's eyes looked terrified and the Fedayeen female fighter realized she had Sue! Sue's legs kicked out as her would-be conqueress leaned forward, increasing the strangling pressure on Sue's throat! Sue's eyes looked frightened beyond belief as her mouth hung open, unable to get any air!

"Be my prisoner -- or die!" whispered Arwa to the American teen as she leaned close to Sue's ear!

Sue had a scared look on her face as the smaller woman stared down at her, hoping to either hear Sue agree to become her slave or see the life leave the cute American girl's body! The smaller woman began to realize she was killing Sue!

The female Fedayeen pushed deeply into Sue's throat, trying to seal her fate!

Sue's life suddenly flashed before her eyes as she knew that her smaller opponent was killing her with her bare hands!

Desperately, Sue reached up and pulled at her would-be killer's hair with her left hand and rolled her over! She punched the Fedayeen woman in the face, evoking a scream of pain!

The two continued to go after each other's throats, trying to choke each other! They rolled and rolled around the floor, each desperate to get the upper hand on the other and finish her off! But neither girl wanted to die or be captured! Both wanted to live free and they fought with everything in them for their very lives!

Both women went for each other's hair and pulled for all they were worth, trying to get the advantage! When Arwa would roll atop Sue, she would try to hold Sue down with her left hand and slap Sue with the other! Many times, this worked but she couldn't hurt the bigger Sue enough to completely gain control of her!

On the other hand, Sue kept trying to control her smaller adversary by yanking her long hair and at times was able to get the advantage by pulling her head from side to side in said manner! But it wasn't enough to gain control of Arwa, either!

As the fight continued, it became a desperate fight between the more aggressive and assertive as well as quicker Arwa against the slightly tentative but every bit as tenacious, bigger, athletic Sue! Just as it would look like either woman would gain the advantage, the other girl would kick it into a higher level in fear of being overwhelmed by her adversary and either get away or completely reverse the fight's course!

Because neither woman was able to control the other for awhile, it looked as though the two were very evenly matched despite Sue's size advantage.

But as the fight wore on, Arwa actually began to assert herself a little more than Sue with constant slaps to her face while holding her by the hair! The mere fact that she was able to do that to Sue was not only a physical accomplishment but also was a tremendous psychological boost for Arwa in that she was able to "womanhandle" the bigger Sue like she was. And on the other hand, the fact that Arwa was able to deliver slap after slap to the face of Sue was somewhat discouraging to the hopes of Sue as she was realizing she could not control the smaller Iraqi teen despite her size advantage!

However, just as it looked like Arwa would eventually overcome Sue's size advantage and emerge the victor, Sue was able to marshal her second win and reverse the tide against her by holding onto Arwa's hair and take more control of the situation -- at least enough to limit Arwa overwhelming her with constant slaps to her pretty face!

Arwa was actually more of a tigress and fighter than Sue was, but Sue was the bigger teen and it was very questionable as to whether the intensity and pure savagery of the smaller Iraqi teen would be enough to ultimately subdue the bigger Sue! If Sue could just hold out long enough, then it seemed like she would sooner or later overcome Arwa due to her size and a little bit of athleticism and fitness mixed in there. But if Sue took on too much punishment and it caused her to slack off and weaken, then the smaller Iraqi could possibly come in and swoop Sue away and humiliate the bigger American girl for the rest of her life by making her her own personal slave girl!

In a normal fight, perhaps Sue would have just given up rather than take the fight to level after level after level. But this fight was different. It was a life-and-death, hand-to-hand combat struggle where the loser's life would basically end, one way or another. And with those stakes at risk, Sue knew that she could never stop fighting!

And that, in the end, proved to be the difference. Despite the aggressiveness and assertiveness as well as intensity displayed by Arwa, the bigger American girl never gave up and proved to be just a little too much for Arwa!

Slowly, as the fight wore on, Arwa found that she was using a lot more strength in her attempts to subdue the bigger Sue than Sue was using in her attempts to control her! Thus, it was Arwa who found her strength and stamina slowly beginning to abate while Sue, who was a little bit slower than the quicker Arwa, began to realize that her size was beginning to make the difference!

Sue's face, red as a beet due to the effort she was putting out against Arwa to control her as well as having her face slapped on a repetitive basis by Arwa, was finally able to crawl atop of her Iraqi adversary and stay there longer than just a couple of seconds before being thrown off.

She straddled Arwa, who desperately kicked her legs out and tried to pull the bigger American girl off of her! But Sue leaned down far enough to avoid the legs of Arwa and pinned the Iraqi girl's arms to the floor with her knees!

She then grabbed Arwa by the hair with both hands and, without hesitation, repeatedly drove the back of Arwa's head into the hard floor by the hair!

Arwa let out a loud groan the first time her head hit the floor and then a loud groan the second time! Arwa frantically kicked her legs out and tried to twist out of the predicament, but Sue's weight was too much for her and she didn't have the time to gradually wriggle away!

The immediacy of the situation was now affecting both Arwa and Sue! Sue had Arwa in a position where she could finish her off in a matter of seconds if she could somehow continue to hit the back of her head against the floor, but she knew her advantageous situation on top of Arwa could last for just a moment so she had to act quickly! Arwa, on the other hand, knew that if she didn't shake Sue off of her in the next few seconds, her American adversary could finish her off by knocking her out if she continued the same attack!

And that's exactly what Sue did! She hit Arwa's head on the floor again a third time and a fourth! Then, for the first time, she felt Arwa begin to go limp beneath her! This only caused Sue to go at an even fuller throttle! With Arwa's resistance wearing down, Sue turned it into overdrive and hit Arwa's head against the floor by the hair a fifth time, then a sixth, and a seventh!

Now, Arwa was barely offering any resistance and was almost knocked out! Sue recognized this and hit her head on the floor an eighth time, a ninth, and a tenth!

Now, Arwa wasn't even moving! But Sue wasn't done! With no one to stop her, Sue just kept driving the back of Arwa's head against the floor! Now a clear, loud "Thump! Thump!" of Arwa's skull hitting the floor could be heard every time Sue bashed the back of Arwa's head against the floor!

Sue hit the back of Arwa's head against the floor quickly an 11th time, a 12th, a 13th ... all the way up to 17 times! Finally, Sue stopped! She looked down at Arwa and raised a fist over her head, waiting for the slightest movement from Arwa! Arwa was completely out! But that didn't prevent Sue from driving her left fist repeatedly into the helpless Arwa's now exposed jaw and chin five times, ultimately fracturing it in two different places and knocking her completely out before Sue stopped!

Sue sat over the motionless, spreadeagled Arwa. Sue was exhausted and still wired up from her desperate struggle. She felt an exhiliaration, a rush, a huge thrill from what she had done. She had beaten another woman in hand-to-hand combat at the most primitive level of war itself and had proven herself to be superior to her female adversary! Sue had proven that she was stronger than Arwa, despite Arwa's best efforts!

Sue noticed Arwa's clothes in a corner. She quickly dragged the unconscious Arwa over to the corner, tied her arms behind her and legs together with Arwa's clothes, wrapping a gag in her mouth. She then stood the unconscious Arwa up and then let her fall, draping her over her shoulders in a fireman's carry-type hold and marched out of the building with her prize, gaining the attention of her fellow male soldiers as she explained what happened.

It turned out, however, that Sue had beaten up Arwa so badly that she had not only fractured the smaller Iraqi teen's jaw but also nearly killed her by fracturing the girl's skull because she had repeatedly smacked the back of her head against the floor.
Arwa spent several weeks in a prison hospital before she was well enough to be placed in a cell -- where she could not help but think that she might end up on the end of a leash like the pictures she had seen recently with a girl looking very much like Sue holding a chain around the neck of an Iraqi prisoner. This very well could have happened since Sue was now stationed at the prison Arwa was held captive. Arwa knew that and feared she would be humiliated in the same way. After all, she had tried to make Sue her slave and would have made her suffer the same kind of indignities. In fact, those prison guards who had heard how Sue had defeated Arwa in hand-to-hand combat not only threatened Arwa with that humiliation at the hands of Sue, but also encouraged Sue to do just that since "she had earned it."

Sue simply smiled and declined. After all, she knew she was better than Arwa and, after what Sue did to her -- so did Arwa!