[TheSpy]

My question would be why would the Shitte militias want her dead? Sure, she was a Sunni, but what would they have to gain from her death? The only logic is that she knew too much.

[cricket]

Sure, she was a Sunni, but what would they have to gain from her death?

. . .reporting. . .their way. . .

[leadpenny]

Logic? Insane people don't use logic.

[oolatec]

She was Sunni. That's all the reason they needed.

[Cowboy Bob]

I guess the Iraqis on the ground know full well that the MSM works hand-in-hand with the terrorists.

[johniegrad]

The killing of Atwar Bahjat, who rose to fame reporting from Iraq for both main Arabic satellite news networks, has shocked Arab journalistic circles.

How could anyone possibly be "shocked" by this or any other thing they see coming from these people?

[Echo Talon]

Maybe they thought she knew about the bombing before hand and that she was in cahoots with the Sunnis? Who knows you never know what these people are thinking, especially after something like losing a mosque of that importance to them.

[Echo Talon]

This is the guy who the Shiite should be after
hell and the Sunnis too for that matter.

[DustyMoment]

Muslim - another word for "murderer".

[lentulusgracchus]

My question would be why would the Shitte militias want her dead? Sure, she was a Sunni, but what would they have to gain from her death?

Why do you think the gunmen were Shiites?

They could have been Al Q'aeda or Ansar al-Sunna.

They may have wanted to pave the way for the execution of the American journalist they're holding in Baghdad.

They may have wanted to do a lot of things.

[Jonah Hex]

It sounded like she had an "Appointment in Samarra". From Somerset Maugham:

Death speaks:

There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, "Master, just now when I was in the market-place I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me."

The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, "Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?"

"THAT WAS NOT A THREATENING GESTURE", I said, "IT WAS ONLY A START OF SURPRISE. I WAS ASTONISHED TO SEE HIM IN BAGHDAD, FOR I HAD AN APPOINTMENT WITH HIM TONIGHT IN SAMARRA."

[satchmodog9]

Shocked in the way they were when Daniel Pearl was slaughtered?

[spanalot]

Did she draw a cartoon of Allah?

[DCPatriot]

Sure, she was a Sunni, but what would they have to gain from her death? The only logic is that she knew too much.

That's logic?

If these people riot, kill and burn over insulting cartoons why is it difficult to assume they were outraged and full of revenge over the destruction of the that golden domed mosque?

She didn't think her Sunni heritage would alarm an insanely p*ssed off Shiite?

Seems more logical doesn't it?