Posted on 12/18/2008 12:00:08 PM PST by BGHater
Gunmen broke into the house of a women's rights activist in the volatile northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday and beheaded her, police said.
The victim was identified as Nahla Hussain, the leader of the women's league of the Kurdish Communist Party. She was alone in the house at the time of her death.
It is not known what the circumstances were that led to the attack. Violence against women has been an ongoing problem in Iraq.
The killing comes ahead of next month's provincial elections, a post-Saddam era watershed event that's generating an uptick in civil unrest and political infighting.
Twenty-four officers from the interior and defense ministries were arrested this week accused of facilitating the activities of former Baathist regime members, the Iraqi prime minister's media spokesman said Thursday.
The detained have links to the al-Awda party, an underground successor to Saddam Hussein's Baath party, Interior Ministry officials said.
The Baathist movement ruled Iraq for 35 years but was banned after Hussein was overthrown in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
The arrests, which were made inside and outside ministerial offices, were carried out by an elite force that reports directly to al-Maliki, according to an Interior Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's media spokesman, Yasseen Majeed, denied that report and said the arrests were made by Iraqi security forces acting on judicial arrest warrants.
Majeed, al-Maliki's military office, and Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta, spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command told Iraqi State TV that reports of a planned coup are incorrect.
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People have been so brainwashed by the idea that Christianity is harmful to women and causes discrimination that what they don’t realize is that a great many of the early converts to Christianity were women because Christianity (and Judaism) gave them a better deal than any other religion or way of looking at the world at the time or since.
NOW and Code Pink will use this as an example of “see, things haven’t gotten any better for women in Iraq since the occupation”, but fail to say that it was the BAD GUYS that did it.
Sorry, I made my post without looking at yours. Neo
Oh, sure. I bet somebody knows.
“It is not known what the circumstances were that led to the attack”
Did the same person that wrote this article not notice the headline of the article?
Great minds and all that stuff, no problemo.
You make FR look pathetic.
Awful way to die.
Gun”men” broke into the house of a women’s rights activist in the volatile northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday and beheaded her, police said.
There sure are some incredible pussies in Iraq.
Beat you to it LOL!
Please put me on the “Headless Activists” ping list.
Jane Fonda, It’s YOUR DUTY AS A WOMAN TO GO OVER THERE AND PROTEST THIS AFFRONT TO FEMINISM!...............
I do not condone or applaud beheadings by Islamic radicals in the least...but if all of the Islamic radicals and all of the the Communists (which this woman was one) get into a big fight and wipe each other out, I will not be shedding too many tears.
Knowing that, I'm just a tad less sympathetic.
OMG...I hope we made more progress than that.
Where are the HUMAN RIGHTS people?
They're awfully QUIET.
Diligently working to save the children from “Rudolph the Red Nose Raindeer” no doubt.
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