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Tuesday, June 3, 2008 12:00 AM

Mother of "honor" killing victim murdered in Iraq

Leila Hussein, the Iraqi woman who dared to leave her husband after he brutally murdered their 17-year-old daughter, was shot in the street.
Catherine Price

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  • Tuesday, June 3, 2008 10:48 AM

    oh and by the way

    nobody takes second place to me in hating Bush's regime, but quit blaming Bush. Saddam's secular veneer was just that, a veneer. Bush didn't mandate that women go back under the burqa. It is the religion and its followers that says this must be so. The minute the religious leaders can grab any sort of power, even that of disorder and chaos, they will start doing this to women. It's at the core of their version of Muslim doctrine. Bush isn't to blame for that.

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