Iraqi Confesses To Rape, Murder Of Journalist Atwar Bahjat
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Source: The Huffington Post 08/04/2009
I couldn't believe it.
I remember when this murder took place, and the horrific spasm of violence following the bombing in Samarra... It was 2006. I had resigned myself to the belief that the murder of Atwar Bahjat would simply be forgotten as just another tragic and faceless episode from the Iraq disaster. There would be no justice, I believed, because justice is in the eye of the beholder, and our eyes were closed to the carnage in Iraq... It was some months ago, in a class in Georgetown, I was asked about gender bias in the media, specifically in regard to war coverage, and I immediately thought of Atwar Bahjat, and, reluctantly, the friends I had lost in Iraq. So I wrote this brief essay. This confession from Yasser al-Takhi – this justice – has, strangely, lifted something of a weight, though, honestly, it changes nothing