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woo me with science Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 11:19 AM
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Internet video: teenage girl stoned in Iraq for "honor," as security forces look on.
Sorry if this is a dupe. This is a link to the newspaper story, not the video. I couldn't bear to look for it. Warning, there are still pictures.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=452288&in_page_id=1811


A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion.

As a horrifying video of the stoning went out on the Internet, the British arm of Amnesty International condemned the death of Du’a Khalil Aswad as "an abhorrent murder" and demanded that her killers be brought to justice.

Reports from Iraq said a local security force witnessed the incident, but did nothing to try to stop it. Now her boyfriend is in hiding in fear for his life....

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DawnIsis Donating Member (202 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 11:36 AM
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1. What a flourishing Democracy
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-04-07 11:42 AM
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2. How biblical.
Fundamentalists must surely applaud.
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