War brings abuse and death to Basra's women

This is another story for the Flat Earth Society types like Freak Rethuglic who support the hopeless war in Iraq (which most Americans have opposed all along).

Basra - Iraq's second-largest city - used to host a vibrant social, industrial, and academic life. Lately, however, the war has forced Basra's women to endure what police chief Maj. Gen. Abdel Jalil Khalaf called "a new type of terror." Khalaf said at least 10 women in Basra are killed monthly by right-wing extremists because they failed to dress in an ultraconservative manner. The women are often riddled with bullets or decapitated by the Pat Robertsons of Iraq.

The violence is so extreme that many women just stay inside their homes all the time. Khalaf said the number of murdered women is actually much higher because the extremists who hide behind religion also go after the women's families if they report the killings.

Men are attacked by extremists too - but according to locals, the women experience much more violence and murder. Few people in Basra today - men, women, and children - are safe from this vigilante violence. The body of one woman who was decapitated was found with that of her 6-year-old son who was also beheaded.

A woman with a nongovernment organization said the new type of terror against women "surfaced after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003."

Are the chickenhawk warmongers happy now? The Bush regime and its cheering section in the media and the blogosphere has blood on their hands for every single one of these murders. Not like this fact shuts them up, because these Movementarians still show up uninvited in every venue they can so they can gug about how Iraqis are "free" now because of the war Bush started. Facts never stand in the way of a good spittle session from Bush cultists.

(Source: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=75396)