Mourning, outrage, disbelief over woman's mutilation in Syria

[Xipe Totec]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- A young woman whisked away by Syrian security forces to coax the surrender of her activist brother turned up beheaded and dismembered, activists and human rights groups say, yet another high-profile display of cruelty in the conflict-wracked nation.

Nineteen-year-old Zainab Alhusni stepped away from her Homs residence last month to buy groceries.

Her family never saw her again until security forces returned her mutilated corpse, two opposition activist groups operating inside Syria and Amnesty International told CNN.

As reports of the torture sparked outrage across Homs and the rest of the world, amateur video surfaced of dozens of woman protesting the death.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/23/world/meast/syria-mutilated-body/index.html

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There are no words.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. .

:cry:

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. +10000

:grr: :cry:

[Xipe Totec]

13. My Dear Peggy

This is a tragedy in every sense of the word.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Lord have mercy, what a bunch of scum!

:-(

Thanks for the thread, Xipe Totec

[Autumn Colors]

3. Beginning of the end of that regime

Horrible, horrible, horrible.

This will be the event that inspires Syrians like the self-immolation of the young man in Tunisia that started the "Arab Spring".

Just wait.

[Wait Wut]

5. Agreed.

They thought they were sending a message. It was an invitation.

[Arctic Dave]

38. Or it's a complete bs story.

BBC reported that her brother was killed earlier and they picked the body up from the morgue, why would tell her family to bring on their son for their daughter.

BBC and CNN are telling a way different story.

[applegrove]

4. Terrorizing the opposition. These Syrians in power are doing war crimes. They are playing for keeps.

[leftynyc]

6. May she rest in eternal peace

I really can't think of anything else to say.

[jaysunb]

7. You are right Xipe Totec

"There are no words" :cry:

[madrchsod]

9. "Asma AL-Assad,Oh'..Where are you?"

seems the first lady has not been seen for a few months....http://english.the-syrian.com/2011/08/14/asma-al-assad-oh-where-are-you/

Vogue magazine pulled their puff piece on Syria`s first lady/queen.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/02/25/Vogues_ridiculous_puff_piece_on_Syrias_ruling_family

odd`s are she`s hiding out in england. she was born in england to a very wealthy Syrian family.

[Dokkie]

10. Sad sad sad

But as long as the opposition can still surrender like they did in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar, please please lets not involve ourselves or NATO into another humanitarian war.

[daleanime]

11. What?

They have oil?:banghead: :cry: :banghead:

[DeSwiss]

12. Still no Tomahawks yet?

:shrug: - What does it take to get some UN Resolution cover around here?!?!

{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum">Answer}

K&R

[stockholmer]

14. at this rate, the US will on war number 12 by Christmas, 12 Drones a bombing, 11 Rangers marching,

10 Haliburtons, 9 'Rebels' raping, 8 different excuses, 7 Times Assad 'killed', 6 times he wasn't, 5 tonnes of DU (depleted uranium that is, Iraqi special blend),

4 Hospitals destroyed (ooops), 3 war deadlines ignored, 2 nations happy (US and Israel), and another bloodstain on the Peace Prize.


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6-x-cT42b8U/TlFEqwDTchI/AAAAAAAAKng/YIUYeB98Ypc/s1600/anthony+freda+HumanitarianBombs.jpg

[DeSwiss]

17. You have a gift for writing lyrics!

- Which would, under other circumstances, be a good thing.......

"As it turned out, homeland insecurity was the perfect foil for the hegemony of Homeland Security. Now the architects of Total Information Awareness can legally be in our phone calls, our emails, our bank accounts, our library cards, our internet browsers, our peace groups, our medical records, our gonads, our heads, and our hearts. We’ve been hornswoggled, hoodwinked, and hijacked into accepting pervasive incursions into every vestige of individual liberty and political democracy -- all done quite ingeniously in the name of protecting liberty and preserving democracy.

"The mathematics are Machiavellian and their logic is inescapable. For the mere price of 3000 souls, the return on investment has been exponential: tens of thousands tortured, hundreds of thousands killed, millions relentlessly survived, billions frightened lest they be next. It is the dream of real numbers, the holy grail of realpolitik, a down payment on the permanent war economy, a blank check for purchasing the dreams of future generations. It is, in short, the emperor’s handcrafted new clothes in full regalia."

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/11">~ from Millennial Math: 9+11=1984 by Randall Amster ~

[stockholmer]

29. great find! thanks so much

:hi:

[pampango]

40. You obviously don't know what Syria's main export is.

The real answer to there being no UN resolution may rather be that there is a Russian naval base in Syria and Russia can veto UN resolutions.

[patrice]

15. .

[Heywood J]

16. This is one of the rare cases

when I could be persuaded that a quick, surgical strike to remove a country's leadership would be a good thing. Syria has proven itself repeatedly to be bloodthirsty and brutal (remember the young boy recently tortured to death) and, if the US is going to spend money to remove foreign leaders anyway, this would be a good place to start.


ETA:

CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the video, the claims, or the death toll because the government has repeatedly denied requests for journalists to report inside Syria.

Way to go, CNN. "We asked them if we could report on their misdeeds but they said no, so we stopped trying."

[SpartanDem]

18. They get replaced by who?

Libya had an organzied opposition for us and the UN to get behind.

[Heywood J]

19. Why don't we let the Syrians decide that? (NT)

[SpartanDem]

36. What could go wrong

taking out a country's leadership then saying 'y'all figure it out'.

[Jefferson23]

20. Brave are the women protesting her murder. ...horrific event. n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

21. Unspeakably awful!

[Arctic Dave]

22. Doesn't say who did it.

Everyone here wants to jump on the Syrian government but they have no proof who did it.

It would be sad if this lady was murdered to further someones agenda.

[Xipe Totec]

24. She was in custody. nt

[Deep13]

23. "It is mine to avenge and I shall repay."

--one of those Bibly things.

Rage. Not sorrow. Not sympathy. Rage. And I don't even know her. When you take what is most precious from someone, that person has nothing left but a burning need for revenge. Al-Assad, his henchmen and collaborators: kill them all.

"Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising
I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"

--Tolkein

[Arctic Dave]

25. It says she went out to get groceries.

Who saw her get taken by the police? Doesn't say, just assumes.

[Xipe Totec]

26. security forces called Zainab's family to trade her "freedom"...

The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an activist group, said security forces called Zainab's family to trade her "freedom for her pro-democracy activist brother's surrender," LCC said.

[Arctic Dave]

32. "they said".

They say a lot.

Cui Bono.

The storyline doesn't make sense. Unless you are looking for a rallying figure.

[Xipe Totec]

34. you say

you say a lot as well, and based on even less information.

What can I say? :shrug:

[Arctic Dave]

35. BBC says they picked her brothers body up from the morgue,

why would they call for him to turn himself in?

Seems BBC and CNN have a conflicting story.

[Canuckistanian]

27. Use your imagination.

Odds are, you'll be be right. Syria wasn't like this BEFORE the uprising.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

28. Syria is a savage country of torture, where people live in peril. nt

[harun]

30. The ruling class there have been that way for a long time. Hope the people get to

see better days.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

31. I agree. nt

[TBF]

33. Looks like Syria will be next to be "liberated". nt

[wisteria]

37. This is sickening and so tragic for the Alhusni family. n/t

[Odin2005]

39. How long before the usual suspects claim this is MSM propaganda?