Nature of the Enemy

Mudville Gazette is reporting on this London Times report on Atwar Bahjat, an Iraqi woman who was brutally murdered by terrorists for her courage to report on events in her native Samarra.  Bahjat, a television reporter for al-Arabiya television, covered the violence in Iraq until she was abducted while a group of Samarrans did nothing to help her.  Her body was found later along with those of her cameraman and sound man.  It was presumed she was shot to death, but it was far worse than that.  Bahjat experienced the worst perversion that could be done to another human being.  Mudville Gazette has more of the details and, I'll warn you, the description is rather graphic and quite clinical.  He ends with an important note, that the terrorists know that "if a brutality can be inflicted that exceeds all human ability to comprehend, the humans will find a way to deny it.  Or excuse it.  Or simply look the other way."  We're not looking the other way.