Women Become Targets in Iraq

[Rose Siding]

BAGHDAD, Oct. 21 -- Two attacks on vehicles carrying Iraqi women to their jobs Thursday morning claimed the lives of six women and one man and severely wounded more than a dozen people, witnesses and government officials said.

Four of the women were killed when gunmen opened fire from a minivan that had pulled alongside a bus filled mostly with female employees of Iraqi Airways and the Civil Aviation Ministry on their way to work at Baghdad International Airport. One woman, a member of an airport cleaning crew, died at the scene and three others died after being rushed to a nearby hospital, according to an Iraqi Airways employee who was riding in a second bus.

"Why are they shooting at us?" asked the witness, who asked that her name not be used for security reasons. "We are working for an Iraqi government company, not an American company."

In the second attack, two female secretaries and a male colleague driving to their jobs in the office of interim President Ghazi Yawar were killed when gunmen fired at their car, witnesses said. Yawar's press secretary, who also was in the vehicle, was seriously wounded, according to the Interior Ministry, which confirmed witness accounts of the attack. ..........

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51673-2004Oct21.html

[acmavm]

1. Shit! bush* & co. have set women's rights, any rights they may have had

back 2000 years. Iraqi women were amongst the most educated and westernized in the Middle East.

I bet every woman in Iraq would really like to get george in a room for about 15 minutes, no witnesses. Like the prisons we put them in.

Hey Laura, here's a cause for you. Remember when you said you were gonna do all this wonderful stuff for Afgani woman (which, like your hubby, you didn't deliver)? Well, here are a few more that who's lives you can improve.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. "Why are they shooting at us?"

Why did the US invade Iraq?

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Horror...

in Iraq.