Report: Iraqi Girl in Love With British Soldier Murdered in 'Honor Killing'

Monday, April 28, 2008

An Iraqi teen was butchered to death by her father in an "honor killing" after she befriended and fell in love with a British solider in Basra, the U.K.'s Daily Mail reported.

Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, had confessed to her best friend Zeinab that she had fallen in love with "Paul," a 22-year-old blond haired, honey-eyed soldier she met at a charity event where she did volunteer work, the Mail reported. Upon hearing the news, her father rushed home and began to strangle her while stabbing her repeatedly and screaming that he was “cleansing his honor.”

He was arrested, but Iraqi police have taken no further action. The man's wife, who reportedly tried to stop the killing by calling for her two sons for protection, is now in hiding.

The Ministry of Defense attempted, Sunday night, to find the soldier, saying he does not appear to have done anything wrong by befriending the teen, the Mail reported. There is no evidence that the two shared a physical relationship. "She was proud to be a virgin and had a dream to give herself to the man she loved only after her marriage," Zeinab said.


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0357 - Emperor Constantius II visits Rome
0585 - War between Lydia & Media ended by solar eclipse
1202 - King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France
1253 - Utrecht destroyed by fire
1376 - English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay
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1796 - Cease fire of Cherasco
1804 - 31 English ships sail Suriname river demand transition colony
1818 - Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on Great Lakes & Lake Champlain
1847 - George B. Vashon becomes 1st Black to enter New York State Bar
1848 - Free last slaves in French colonies
1855 - 1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston
1910 - 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
1914 - 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles, WV; W.H. Carrier patents air conditioner
1919 - 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)
1920 - Azerbaijan SSR joins the USSR (1st time)
1924 - 119 die in Benwood, WV coal mine disaster
1925 - Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army; Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
1932 - Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
1934 - Spanish government of Samper forms
1937 - 1st commercial flight across the Pacific, Pan Am
1939 - Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect
1940 - Rudolf Hess becomes commandant of concentration camp Auschwitz
1941 - Last British troops in Greece surrender
1942 - "WWII" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll; Nightly "dim-out" begins along the East Coast
1943 - German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa; US 34th Division occupies Djebel el Hara North Tunisia
1944 - Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats; Stalin meets Polish/US priest S Orlemanski
1945 - British commands attack Elbe & occupies Lauenburg; US 5th army reaches Swiss border
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia
1952 - WWII Pacific peace treaty takes effect
1956 - Last French troop leave Vietnam
1958 - Vanguard TV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed); Vice President Richard Nixon begins goodwill tour of Latin America
1961 - Lieutenant Colonel Georgi Mossolov takes E-66A to 34,714 meter altitude
1965 - US Marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966
1965 - Richard Helms replaces Marshall S. Carter as deputy director of CIA; William F. Raborn, Jr., replaces John A McCone as 7th head of CIA
1966 - OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
1967 - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into Army & stripped of boxing title
1968 - 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old Martin Brown
1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France
1971 - Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st Black Admiral in US Navy; Dutch social Democratic party/D'66/DS'70 win parliamentary election
1975 - Last Americans evacuated from Saigon; South-Vietnam General Duong Van Minh sworn in as president till April 30
1977 - Christopher Boyce convicted for selling US secrets to the Russians; Andreas Baader & members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany
1980 - Cyrus Vance, Carter's Secretary of State, resigns
1983 - NASA launches Goes-F; Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead
1986 - Chernobyl, USSR, beomes the site of the world's worst nuclear power plant disaster
1988 - Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
1989 - Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money; Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
1990 - Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) is launched
1992 - Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns
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1774 - Francis Baily, describer of "Baily's Beads" during solar eclipse
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1912 - Odette Hallowes, British classified agent in France (WWII)
1922 - William S. Broomfield (Representative-R-MI)
1924 - Kenneth David Kaunda, founder/President (Zambia, 1964-91)
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1936 - Foead I, King of Egypt (1922-36)
1945 - Benito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), captured, tried, & shot; Claretta Petacci mistress of Mussolini, executed
1960 - Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist, at 87
1984 - Glen H. Taylor, US Senator/vice presidential candidate (1948), at 80
1996 - Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro politician, at 80; William E. Colby, director of CIA (1973-76)

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Storz, Ronald Edward, USAF (NY); O1A shot down, DIC "Alcatraz," Hanoi, 1970 - remains returned March, 1974

1967
Caras, Franklin Angel, USAF (UT); F105 shot down, remains returned November, 1987 - ID'd February, 1988

1968
Bors, Joseph C., USAF (NY); RF4C disappeared on mission (backseater w/Cook)

Cook, William R., USAF (MN); RF4C disappeared on mission (pilot, w/Bors)

Finlay, John S., USAF (VA); F4D shot down (pilot, w/Rumble), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998

Rumble, Wesley L., USAF (CA); F4D shot down (w/Finlay), released August, 1969

Saavedra, Robert, USN (AZ); A4E disappeared on mission

1969
Reardon, Richard J., USNR (NY); UH1B shot down - remains recovered February, 1970

Snider, Hughie F., US Army (WV); pulled out by undertow while swimming

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