A father in Basra brags about murdering his daughter for her infatuation with an American soldier. The Basra police have all but patted him on the back and said “good job.” Don’t read this if you can’t stomach casual cruelty, not to mention the bitter irony of what the “liberation” of Iraq has borne.
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