Posted on 11/15/2004 12:13:51 AM PST by kattracks
Marines searching for holdout guerrillas in Fallujah yesterday discovered the mutilated body of a blond woman lying in the street under a blood-soaked cloth — and officials believe it could be one of two Western women kidnapped last month.The body could not be immediately identified, but Margaret Hassan, 59, a Briton who runs Iraq's division of CARE International, and Polish-born Teresa Borcz Khalifa, 54, are the only kidnapped women who remain unaccounted for.
As U.S. and Iraqi troops pushed deeper into devastated Fallujah, other kidnappers who last week snatched relatives of the prime minister announced that they had begun releasing their captives.
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Marines swept through one of the last rebel holdouts in the southern quarters yesterday and, in what was considered a symbolic victory, also reopened the same Fallujah bridge where Iraqis strung up the charred bodies of two American contractors in March.
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Embedded correspondents who drove through Fallujah saw utter destruction yesterday. Bodies lay in the streets. Homes were smashed, mosques ruined, and power and telephone lines hung uselessly. A Marine general said he doubted if any large number of civilians were still in Fallujah since the assault began, and he kept a Red Crescent relief convoy waiting at the main hospital on the outskirts of town.
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What TROP rule did she violate? Going out in public without a burka?
Sickening. A prayer for this poor woman, whoever she was.
I believe it was the simple "crime" of being western-looking.
Why didn't the New York Post article bother to mention that her arms and legs were amputated (hacked off) she was disembowled, her throat was slashed and for 'good measure' I guess, her face was rendered unrecognizable? Are the folks at the New York Post too squeamish to tell us the truth or are they trying to save our sensibilities?
" Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's cousin, the cousin's wife and their daughter-in-law were all threatened with death if the interim leader did not call off the Fallujah offensive. But they apparently relented and released the two women, al-Jazeera television reported yesterday."
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I think its starting to work. Allawi has proved his metal, standing fast, and the terrorists are starting to see the writing on the wall. There is probably one mor (much smaller) Falluja to wade thru before elections, but this is starting to look promising.
I do think Allawi has to take all those foreign fighters, Iranians, Saudis, Syrians, that were captured and stand them up before a fireing squad. Preferably with AlJazerra filming. Only then will the influx of these thugs start to slow. And the Iranians should go last, so they have plenty of time to think about it. I bet they will prove to be Iranian Army, and will be forced to admit it while begging for their life.
Why didn't the New York Post article bother to mention that her arms and legs were amputated (hacked off) she was disembowled, her throat was slashed and for 'good measure' I guess, her face was rendered unrecognizable? Are the folks at the New York Post too squeamish to tell us the truth or are they trying to save our sensibilities?
They don't want to portray the terrorists as the animals that they really are. They want us to be sensitive to them and they also want us to feel bad about all the dead terrorists in the streets.
I think Allawi got a message to the "rebels" letting them know, in no uncertain terms, what they would be in for if any harm came to his relatives.
the only thing i feel bad about is that their were not more dead terrorists lying in the streets.
"...Homes were smashed, mosques ruined..."
So sad. Have a look at this abomination I found:
"I have just witnessed a murder on my TV screen"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1043.htm
Barf alert.
Call me dumb ! I have watched that video 4 times and still dont see this shooting of the injured iraqi ?
And yet, her appearance must have been not much altered, if they were able to identify her as "western looking." There is something strange about this story. They also said she had been dead for "some time." If so, the face would be black and swollen with decomposition - within 48 hours.
That's the first time I've seen number of wounded. Prayers for all.
Isn't this the same type liberal media that hailed Arafat as a peacemaker. Marketing the terrorist persona must be hard work.
They said she was blond...not too many blond Iraqis are there?
Imagine that....Marines doing their job. What does the writer think military is for, anyway? Don't answer that.....
Odds are good that this victim was either Margaret Hassan, a C.A.R.E. worker who spent twenty-five years in Iraq for no other purpose than apolitical humanitarianism, or Teresa Borcz Khalifa, a woman who holds dual Polish/Iraqi citizenship, and whose only ‘crime’ was being the Caucasian wife of an Iraqi citizen. But even if it were someone else ...
Summon up the courage to imagine the unthinkable, and force yourself (because it is by no means easy for you or I) to reflect on what was done to either Hassan or Khalifa before she died -- in the demented minds of her executioners, there would be no purpose in perpetrating their sadism afterwards. She had her legs hacked off, her face completely chopped up, suffered disembowelment (can anyone forget the powerfully sickening final scene of Braveheart that caused many of us to look away in horror, amid sobs of human compassion?), and then was decapitated, no doubt in the slowest, most agonizing way possible.
When I first read about this yesterday, sitting here at my computer, a chill so bone-deep ran through me that I literally had to get up, put a sweater on, and compose myself before I could continue reading.
Please. Think for a few moments about how this innocent woman met her death.
Now ask yourself a few questions:
(1) Why will the average American -- one who does not expend the effort to take part in a forum like this, or listen to more than a half hour of daily ‘news’ as served up on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, or MSNBC -- never hear about her exquisitely painful, torturous death?
(2) Why does the average American know every minute detail about the handful of Iraqi terrorists who were embarrassed by a handful of American troops at Abu Ghraib?
(3) Why have we been subjected to facts, and unending speculation, about the murder of Laci Peterson for two years, amid incessant, droning, Chinese-water-torture-like repetition (and why are we likely to hear about it, and its repercussions for two more)?
Set aside, for a moment, the holocaust that took place on 9/11/01. Or the countless other human-on-human atrocities that have occurred on land, in the air and on the sea over the past few decades at the hands of Islamic butchers. On Iraqi soil alone, barbaric, bloodthirsty Muslim terrorists have either caused, or allowed, the filling of countless mass graves with hundreds of thousands of bodies of their own countrymen … and they continue to torture, mutilate, and murder -- simply for the sake of witnessing another human being suffer excruciating agony -- countless American and coalition-force citizens.
One of their latest victims was apparently an innocent woman whose physical and emotional agony none of us can even remotely hope to comprehend, and to whom death no doubt finally came as a welcome blessing.
And the reason this woman met such a fate at their hands is the same reason that these people would see you and I meet the same fate, were they able to mete it out to us: as was she, we are infidels.
Yet there is a deep, incredibly disturbing reason that the people of the western world are not being sufficiently exposed to such mounting atrocities, but are instead having their attention diverted to stories of far less long-term significance – and it has absolutely nothing (repeat: nothing) to do with the media’s claim that they would prefer not to disturb the ‘sensibilities’ of their viewers/listeners. These are the same media that share an ideological mindset with the Hollywood elite, who insist on filling our televisions, music outlets, and movie screens with sickening, shock-value, lowest-common-human-denominator artistic creations.
The mainstream media are among the most deadly enemies of life and liberty this planet has ever known, complicit and on equal footing with the madmen who perpetrate the barbaric crimes that they refuse to expose in their entirety.
I, for one, have chosen not to listen to one more word of media coverage of the Laci Peterson case, or one more report of American ‘atrocities’ committed against the Afghani or Iraqi people, or one more politician who calls for a more ‘sensitive’ war on terror. There are hundreds of other stories, far more worthy of our attention, far more threatening to our own existence, and far more deserving of our compassion, empathy and anger, that will remain forever buried by ‘journalists’ whose calling it is to enlighten those of us who will always choose life, liberty and compassion over tyranny, bloodshed and hatred.
~ joanie
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