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Can someone copy and paste the article..
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/20...suspected/

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By Olivia Katrandjian
Mar 25, 2012 2:17pm
Iraqi Woman Beaten to Death in California, Hate Crime Suspected
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ABC News

A woman from Iraq who was found beaten, lying in a pool of blood in her in El Cajon, Calif., home next to a note saying “go back to your country,” has died and police are investigating her death as a possible a hate crime.

Shaima Alawadi’s 17-year-old daughter found her unconscious on the dining room floor of her home Wednesday. She was taken to the hospital and put on life support, but she was taken off life around 3 p.m. Saturday.

“Our understanding is that she was beaten and she was hit with some kind of a tool about 8 times in the head. She was knocked on the floor and was found in a pool of blood,” said Hanif Mohebi, the director of the San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Alawadi was a 32-year-old mother of five children, ranging in age from eight to 17.

“A week ago they left a letter saying this is our country not yours you terrorist, and so my mom ignored that thinking it was just kids playing a prank,” Alawadi’s daughter, Fatima Al Himidi, told ABC News affiliate KGTV. “But the day they hit her, they left another note again, and it said the same thing.”

Al Himidi told KGTV the intruders did not steal anything from their home, and the only motive must have been hate.

“A hate crime is one of the possibilities, and we will be looking at that,” Lt. Mark Coit said, according to The Associated Press. “We don’t want to focus on only one issue and miss something else.”

Al Awadi immigrated to the United States from Iraq in the mid-1990s.

There is a large Iraqi population in El Cajon, Mohebi said, and its members often face “discriminatory hate incidents.”

“Our ultimate goal is that whoever did this is brought to justice,” Mohebi said.

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To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling

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A despicable tragedy...Damn - my heart goes out to her children.

Beyond All Seas

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling

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i just saw the first part of the title an thought it was what they call a "honor killing" where they beat women and young girls to death. Shame to see it was a hate crime in the states....

i stumbled upon a video of one of these "honor killings" in the middle east, a decent looking teenage girl was drug out in the streets an kicked an stoned to death cause they thought she "stepped out" with a man. that shit fucked me up an i avoid any kind of story about something awful happening to young people on the internet now. when i do happen to read a headline about something happening to young people i pretend its fake an im on the "onion news" website.....

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Fuckin shame. I feel really bad for her daughter that found her. I couldn't imagine being in that position.

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It most likely wasn't a hate crime...

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/03/here-...again.html

Quote:The ABC News report made it clearer what Chief Redman's statement that he believed this was "an isolated incident", means:
"Police declined to elaborate, but crime experts said that usually suggests the victim knows the attacker."

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(03-30-2012 06:08 AM)Roosh Wrote:  It most likely wasn't a hate crime...

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/03/here-...again.html

Quote:The ABC News report made it clearer what Chief Redman's statement that he believed this was "an isolated incident", means:
"Police declined to elaborate, but crime experts said that usually suggests the victim knows the attacker."

Yep. When's the last time a hate crime involved someone breaking into the victim's home and killing him/her there? This was way too targeted to be a hate crime.

The note was just an amateur hour attempt to throw the police off the trail.