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The Murder of Du'a Aswad

Recently, a mob of frenzied men beat and stoned to death a 17-year-old girl, Du'a Khalil Aswad, in northern Iraq. She was murdered by relatives and neighbors for falling in love with someone that her community did not approve of, in what's typically called an "honor killing." Her murder has received a fair amount of media coverage, not because "honor killings" are an anomaly in today's Iraq, but because this particular attack was videotaped and released on the Internet.