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MADem

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12. Apparently the daughter has a boyfriend, was sexually active, and was looking at an arranged
Thu Apr 5, 2012, 10:24 PM
Apr 2012

marriage to a cousin, like it or not. AND...that old husband on disability was looking at losing his wife through divorce. Lots of motive, right there.

I wonder if Dad and Daughter will ever come home? Wonder if Iraq will extradite? They are dual nationals (I assume Iraq has that citizenship-via-parents thing like most places) and they have some 'splaining to do.

If the boyfriend--who has been identified--had anything to do with this (was he the guy running through the neighborhood with the donut shaped box?) and is pinned with the crime while the plotter(s) go free, that's not a good thing. He'll probably sing like a canary, if he hasn't already.

This whole sorry mess had nothing to do with "hijabs." A hijab didn't kill that poor woman, and one couldn't save her either. The only hate that victim had to deal with came from inside her own house. How terribly sad. Of course, she was 32 with a 17 year old daughter--you can do the math and realize she was a child bride who was probably shoved into one of those arranged marriages with some guy way too old for her. Her husband looks like a shi'a Saddam, with the hair dye. Sheesh.

Based on the search warrant, which is online now, it's obvious that the police knew from the get-go what this was all about. That bad acting job that the daughter did on TV probably tipped them off before they even got to the forensic details.

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