Sickening description of a helpless journalists last moments
The following may be a little heavy for afternoon reading. The Times Online reports of the kidnapping and murder of Atwar Bahjat, a young female reporter from Iraq:
EVEN by the stupefying standards of Iraq’s unspeakable violence, the murder of Atwar Bahjat, one of the country’s top television journalists, was an act of exceptional cruelty.
Nobody but her killers knew just how much she had suffered until a film showing her death on February 22 at the hands of two musclebound men in military uniforms emerged last week. Her family’s worst fears of what might have happened have been far exceeded by the reality.
I’ll be honest in saying that my stomach was in knots after reading the reported details of the gruesome incident. I can’t image what the recorded video may have looked like.
