Iraqi official: Leader of women's group killed (decapitated)

[Barrett808]

Source: Associated Press

Iraqi official: Leader of women's group killed
By YAHYA BARZANJI
December 18, 2008

Iraqi police say attackers have decapitated the leader of the women's league of the Kurdish Communist Party.

A police officer says gunmen on Thursday stormed the Kirkuk home of Nahla Hussein al-Shaly and shot and beheaded her.

The city of Kirkuk lies 180 miles north of Baghdad. The officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

Party spokesman Azad Gahareeb says the 37-year-old al-Shaly may have been targeted because she promoted women's rights. He says the married mother of two was alone in the house when she was attacked.

Read more: http://www.topix.net/world/iraq/2008/12/iraqi-official-leader-of-womens-group-killed

[Doctor_J]

1. Freedom is on the march

Maybe some slobbering sycophant on Smirk's Victory Tour will ask him about this.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Freedom is running for cover n/t

[TomInTib]

10. Freedom is in the Reign.

Smelling like a cold, wet dog.

[Lars39]

3. Rice:

I am proud of the liberation of 25 million Iraqis. :puke:

[Eurobabe]

4. But I thought the surge worked?

:eyes: :eyes:

[cstanleytech]

5. Wait just a damn minute.

Are you telling me now that Bush lied 3 days ago when he said in a speech in Iraq to the troops
"Thanks to you, the Iraq we're standing in today is dramatically freer, dramatically safer and dramatically better than the Iraq we found eight years ago." ?
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!!

[peacetalksforall]

6. We liberated the Iraqis and brought them democracy and removed the wmd. Plus, we gave them a

regime change.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. so much to say to this

that I don't know how to say it.

Let this be a mirror, an extreme one, yes, but a mirror and wake up call to remind us to practice admiration for all women and the right to make t he most out of our lives.

(yes, even as a woman myself, I have a long way to go in terms of thinking opposite to perceptions I've internalized)

What we practice in our daily lives ripples outward.

[Rebubula]

8. Couple of points

A) Bush and company should be tried for war crimes at the very least
B) Going into Iraq was one of the dumbest things any US administration has ever done

C) This kind of shit has been going on LONG BEFORE the US entered the arena. Women are routinely abused, forced into marriages, murdered for shaming a family member

Bush is an enemy of all good peoples. Religious dogma, like what we see in the ME, is also an enemy of all good peoples.

The two can exist without the other.

We can blame BushCo for so many things...however barbaric shit like this has been a constant in Northern Iraq long before the US was in existence. Kurds have been the regions Bitch for 200 years.

Correlation does not equal causation. To attempt to do so cheapens other arguments.

[Xipe Totec]

11. so what exactly did we change?

and was it worth the price?

[Rebubula]

12. As far as ...

..women's rights...I would say that we changed nothing. This shit was bad before we got there and will be bad long after we leave. The only thing we changed was the name on the office of the President.

Unless Iraq all of sudden became a beacon of peace and prosperity with fountains of rainbows and puppies flowing free for all - it would not be worth the price.

Very few things worth 100,000 lives...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. "This kind of shit has been going on LONG BEFORE the US entered the arena"

Actually, women's right have gone way downhill since the U.S. invasion.

[Politicalboi]

9. Bush say's

"So What".

[Gwendolyn]

13. She must have known what the risks were.

I hope she was shot dead before they carved her head off.


:cry:

[IMPERIUM V]

14. Women were more respected under Saddam, say women's groups

BAGHDAD, 13 April (IRIN) - According to the findings of a recent survey by local rights NGOs, women were treated better during the Saddam Hussein era - and their rights were more respected - than they are now.

"We interviewed women in the country and met with local NGOs dealing with gender issues to develop this survey, which asked questions about the quality of women's life and respect for their rights," said Senar Muhammad, president of Baghdad-based NGO Woman Freedom Organisation. "The results show that women are less respected now than they were under the previous regime, while their freedom has been curtailed."

According to the survey, women's basic rights under the Hussein regime were guaranteed in the constitution and - more importantly - respected, with women often occupying important government positions. Now, although their rights are still enshrined in the national constitution, activists complain that, in practice, they have lost almost all of their rights.

...

"Before the US-led invasion in 2003, women were free to go to schools, universities and work, and to perform other duties," Senar added. "Now, due to security reasons and repression by the government, they're being forced to stay in their homes."

http://www.health-now.org/site/article.php?articleId=591&menuId

[LynnTheDem]

15. Freedom is messy.

Really.


:eyes:

[superconnected]

17. Things like this always get me.

I hope they catch the murderers and put them in an iraqi prison run by the Bush administration.