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08. May 2006

'Part of me died when I saw this cruel killing'

 
Hos TimesOnline, en usædvanligt ubehagelig påmindelse om brutaliteten i den borgerkrig, der lader til at være igang i Irak:
EVEN by the stupefying standards of Iraq’s unspeakable violence, the murder of Atwar Bahjat, one of the country’s top television journalists, was an act of exceptional cruelty.

Nobody but her killers knew just how much she had suffered until a film showing her death on February 22 at the hands of two musclebound men in military uniforms emerged last week. Her family’s worst fears of what might have happened have been far exceeded by the reality.
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Two men drove up in a pick-up truck, asking for her. She appealed to a small crowd that had gathered around her crew but nobody was willing to help her. It was reported at the time that she had been shot dead with her cameraman and sound man.

We now know that it was not that swift for Bahjat. First she was stripped to the waist, a humiliation for any woman but particularly so for a pious Muslim who concealed her hair, arms and legs from men other than her father and brother.
Læs bare det hele - men vær advaret! Det er ikke rar læsning.

Abu Aardvark har et par kommentarer til historien - kommentarerne er også et kig værd.

Update, 8. maj 2006 kl. 22.55:
Abu Aardvark mener nu, at historien er fup, og at den beskrevne video slet ikke viser mordet på Atwar Bahjat:
I have 2 pics of atwar bahjat, one taken just before her death, the other after her death. Dead, she was not slain, nor stripped . She wore her heavy winter jacket over a pullover. This contradicts the whole story. If you give me an email, I will send you the two pics.

It is all a fake psyop...
som han skriver i en kommentar. Hvilket er glædeligt for Bahjats familie, men mindre glædeligt for den, mishandlingen på videoen faktisk gik udover - hvilket der spekuleres lidt over i Aardvarks updates.

Viser måske, at man skal huske at tage ting med et gran salt, når man læser dem på en weblog som denne - og såmænd også, hvis men læser dem i en rigtig avis som nu f.eks. The Times.

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