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Iraq: Where death is the penalty for going bare-headed
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Sunday October 29, 2006 18:50 by Mary Riddell
Women die at the hands of the occupying US forces; but most women die at the hands of the "Resistance". Read the full article by Mary Riddell at the link. These are hideous times for women targeted by Shiite and Sunni militias. As my colleague Peter Beaumont reported earlier this month, murder rates are rising for those in the wrong sect, the wrong job or simply the wrong place. In the new Iraq, there is only one way to live, in fear and enforced submission, but death comes in many forms. If the revenge killers, armed robbers and rape gangs do not get you, then suicide bombers might. |
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America is the enemy
America is not my enemy. On what basis should the above be deleted ?
not fiction, please leave
it accurately describes the conditions women in Iraq have to put up with as militias rage and kill their own people at an alarmingly nasty rate with the objective of strenghtening their powerbaseand expanding their territory through blatent murder of the opposites religious sects
The truth is it aint pretty
but its the truth
Steve, I see you advocate Stalinesque style censorship, "I dont agree with it, so it must be censored", otherwise the Ugly little secret gets out & People will realize the insurgents, terrorists, resistance has no clothes.
Hate for the yanks is one thing, if thats what You like fine, but dont excuse or ignore the appalling behaviour of these groups you admire as well. They are hardly Liberators, if we re named them Israeli you would be screaming for their blood.