Atwar Bahjat: Another victim of the sons of perdition
Atwar Bahjat: Another voice silenced by the darkness and depravity
A true daughter of Iraq, Atwar Bahjat inspired her friends as well as her opponents by her ability to see past any conflict into the eyes of the men and women caught up in the struggle. Atwar loved her country more than anything and as she reported on the hardships of living in a nation, first at war, and then struggling to evolve into something radically different, she became an Iraqi "everyman".
"Atwar was more than a new reporter burning to prove herself.
She was a young Iraqi who found herself telling the story of her country under foreign occupation, on the brink of division and chaos.
"People saw this young Iraqi woman, reporting from hospitals,the scenes of explosions, deserted streets, the family homes of the deceased. People felt she belonged to them. They felt she represented them," says Uday al-Katib, a colleague at Aljazeera.
Atwar was not objective, as she herself admitted.
She was biased in favour of Iraq.
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"Atwar never talked about Kurds and Shias and Sunnis," says Ahmad Al Samarai, another Aljazeera colleague.
"She always talked about Iraqis."
Atwar met an early demise at the hands of barbaric and animalistic men who tortured her mercilessly and then killed her in a manner that can only be definied as synonymous with evil. There are just no words for what was done to her. And now a video of her last moments has surfaced, a video captured with a cell phone by a man who dares to praise God as the blood is pouring forth from a gaping neck wound made by a knife with an eight inch blade.
If you have any doubts as to the reason we are fighting in Iraq, any questions about why President Bush used the word evil to describe our enemies, please read about Atwar Bahjat over at Mudville Gazette. Know that the horrifying and diabolical men who brutally forced the life from this beautiful, young, 30 year old woman do not limit such treatment for female reporters but have carried out similar acts of ferocious depravity upon innocent men, women and children without the slightest reservation. They speak a moral and political language that calls for death or unqaulified submission and they revel in the opportunity to behave inhumanely. If this is who we are fighting in WWIII, then fight we must.
