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http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17431866&method=full&siteid=62484&headline=hanged-from-a-crane-aged-16--name_page.html

23 July 2006
"EXCLUSIVE: HANGED FROM A CRANE AGED 16
EXCLUSIVE JUSTICE IRAN STYLE: SICK GIRL EXECUTED BY JUDGE SHE DEFIED Her crime? She had sex with an unmarried man"
By Susie Boniface

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "IT WAS exactly 6am and the start of another blisteringly hot summer day when 16-year-old Atefeh Rajabi was dragged from her prison cell and taken to be executed.

Every step of the way the troubled teenager plagued by mental problems shouted "repentance, repentance" as the militiamen marched her to the town's Railway Square.

The Iranian judge who had sentenced Atefeh to death was left unmoved as he personally put the noose around her neck and signalled to the crane driver.

Kicking and screaming, Atefeh was left dangling for 45 minutes from the arm of the crane as the crowd sobbed and - under their breath - damned the mullahs.

Atefeh's crime? Offending public morality. She was found guilty of "acts incompatible with chastity" by having sex with an unmarried man, even though friends say Atefeh was in such a fragile mental state that she wasn't in a position to say no.

But Judge Haji Rezaii was determined she should hang, regardless of the rules of international law which say only adults over 18 can be executed, and that the courts have a duty to children and the mentally ill.

The brutal end to Atefeh's short life has shone a new light on Iran's Shariah law, where adultery, theft and rape all carry the same punishment - death. Officially around 100 people - some just children like Atefeh - are executed each year. But human rights groups say the true figure could be much higher in a country where only half of the women can read, only one in 10 have a job and two-thirds are beaten in their homes."

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200607/INT20060726b.html

"Int'l Force in Lebanon Must Avoid Past Mistakes, Analysts Warn"
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
July 26, 2006

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http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/000475.html

July 25, 2006

"An International Force: Advantages and Disadvantages"
By Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon and Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror

Jerusalem Issue Brief
Institute for Contemporary Affairs
founded jointly at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
with the Wechsler Family Foundation

Vol. 6, No. 4 - 25 July 2006

Kicking and screaming, Atefeh was left dangling for 45 minutes from the arm of the crane as the crowd sobbed and - under their breath - damned the mullahs.

Yes, they did not even make an attempt to kill her humanely- a common feature of middle-east executions.

A blogger I highly recommend-- Atlas Shrugs, google her-- has covered this "little shop of horrors" aspect of The Alleged Religion of Peace:

Jihad Media Hides Evil Savagery

You rarely (if ever) read about Islamic Iran's peculiar appetite for public hangings which I try to chronicle from time to time here, here,  here and here for example. Their record as the greatest violators of human rights (the beat China?), is hardly spoken of. When Iran installs the torturer and murderer of Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi  on the UN Human Rights council, little is made of it in the Jihad media.  Nor do you hear the unimaginable acts of barbarity perpetrated on the Christians in Lebanon, painfully described here  by Brigitte Gabriel. The Jihad media is the horrible accomplice is all this evil by their silence and their cover.

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