World | Iman al-Obeidi Libyan Rape Accuser Moves to US Iman al-Obeidi gets asylum; told media Gadhafi forces assaulted her By Matt Cantor Posted Jul 29, 2011 3:10 AM CDT Copied Hands from hotel employees trying to grab her, and foreign journalist attempting to protect her, surround Iman al-Obeidi, right, after she showed her wounds to the press. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) The woman who burst into a media breakfast to say she’d been gang-raped by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces has arrived in the US, where she’s been granted asylum, CNN reports. Iman al-Obeidi flew into New York following 54 days in a UN refugee camp in Romania; she then took another flight to her new US home. Saying she was excited to be here, al-Obedi thanked the government and Hillary Clinton and said she hoped someday to meet the secretary of state. Read These Next South Park episode on Trump may be a real 'mess' for him. Trump isn't talking about a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. Now we know why Ghislaine Maxwell may have opened up to the DOJ. Journal pulls a controversial paper on arsenic after 15 years. Report an error