Sahar Hussein Ali al-Haydari, age 44, was a correspondent for the national Iraqi press agency NINA and the independent agency Aswat al-Iraq. She contributed to a number of other media and also taught journalism, notably for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in London.
This is the Iraqi dilemma: Stay and work to build a new country, and you may die; or depart and save yourself, and the result can be the death of Iraq by a thousand departures.
Perhaps we should "kill Iraq". Divide it into 3 or more regions, and secure only those who want us there and want a secular, individual-rights-respecting government.