Hot Damn! CNN calls Abeer a 14 yr old girl!!! (Girl, little girl also)

Thank you everyone and anyone who contacted them about this. The progression went from Iraqi woman to "the female" now to a little girl. Good job. Now, to hold those murderers responsible responsible.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/08/iraq.mahmoudiya/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/07/iraq.familyslain/index.html

My daughter just turned 16. She's a girl, not a woman.

I know it's quibbling, but I have too much fondness and respect for kids that age to refer to them as "little girls".

I know lots of teenagers and some are more mature, some stay little girl for longer. It all depends.

an Iraqi Muslim girl or young woman. Not to belittle rape in Western civilisation, rape in an Islamic world is to all intents and purposes a death sentence to the victim, or at best a life of shame.

And what of the comparable assault on the father. Again there are huge cultural differences. By assaulting his family this way they essentially emasculated him. How helpless would he have felt in the days leading up to the abominable finale as his daughter was stalked by these men and he could take no action against them?

Was he killed as an impediment to the planned rape? Or as a witness who could not be left behind? The answers there will mean a great deal.

And the assault on the mother. Did she die before or after her children's screams started?

Few, if any of us, know how this poor girl suffered, but others suffered just as unimaginable hurts of their own. And we should not forget them.

I don't even want to think of how or why.

I heard a report on the BBC early this week and they referred to her as a 13 year old girl.

Cheers

to exonerate war crimes like this one.

to exonerate war crimes like this one.

Sick and it is happening more and more. Must stop!