Girl, 17, killed in Iraq for loving a British soldier

Rand Abdel-Qader was stamped upon, suffocated and stabbed by her father, then given an unceremonious burial to emphasise her disgrace. Police released her father without charge two hours after his arrest.

“Not much can be done when we have an honour killing case,” said Sergeant Ali Jabbar of Basra police. “You are in a Muslim society and women should live under religious laws. The father has very good contacts inside the Basra government and it wasn’t hard for him to be released and what he did to be forgotten.”

The religion of “peace” (as long as you submit your free will and free thought to their 7th century cult of death, otherwise you must die) shows it’s barbarism, yet again. This time the victim was a 17 year old.

A total of 47 young women died in honour killings in the city last year, Basra Security Committee told an investigation into Ms Abdel-Qader’s case by The Observer. This is believed to be the only case of an honour killing involving a British soldier.

Wow, those tolerant muslims! Only 47 honor killings. Much better than countries like Iran and Saudi Barbaria, where if you get gang-raped you go to jail and get sentenced to 200 lashes in public, unless you apologize for being gang-raped and promise never to be gang-raped again. I wonder if the 47 counted here includes all the women killed by the militias in Basra (whom anyone with 1/1000000th of a functioning brain cell knows are trained by Iran) for not dressing in the traditional black, garbage bag like dresses.

Full newsclip over at the Independent

Can we snuff this guy out already?

Memri

The head of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr, has issued a communiqué in which he threatens the Iraqi government with “open war until liberation” if the U.S. and Iraqi forces continue their military operations against his people in Baghdad and Basra. Al-Sadr accuses the Iraqi government of ungratefulness, and of targeting the Sadrist movement despite the fact that it is flesh of its flesh.

Source: www.aswataliraq.info, April 19, 2008

As in “RECONCILIATION”, also known as Political Reconciliation, which might be a possibility now.

Despite liberal defeatists like John Kerry, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and others parroting each other over and over again that the surge is a failure.

Iraq’s Sadr to disband Mahdi Army if clerics order

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is ready to disband his militia if Shi’ite religious leaders demand it, his aides said on Monday, a surprising offer given renewed clashes between his fighters and security forces.

I guess his militia is getting its ass handed to it, and instead of being utterly crushed, he is saving face among his Shiite peers by “calling for peace and diplomacy” so he doesn’t become a political outcast once things calm down in Iraq.

The news came after Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who launched a crackdown on Sadr’s Mehdi Army late last month, ordered the cleric to disband his militia or face exclusion from the Iraqi political process.

Black-masked Mehdi Army fighters have been principal actors in Iraq’s five-year-old war and the main foes of U.S. and Iraqi forces in widespread battles over recent weeks.

Yet another setback looms for the defeatist democrats and their plan to surrender.