Iraqi Woman Critically Beaten in Calif. (Has Died); Threat Note Left at Scene

[MADem]

7. Let's not rush to judgment just yet.

Who brings a note and then beats someone unconscious to the point of what they may have thought was death?

Far better, if you want to communicate a threat, to cause a non-mortal wound and leave the 32 year old woman (with a seventeen year old kid--sheesh, Mom didn't have much of a childhood, did she?) to tell the rest of her family what the "evil doer" said.

They weren't lost Iraqi flowers amongst the hate-filled mouth-breathers--they were living in the midst of a vibrant southern California Iraqi community, one of the larger ones in the nation.

The father was out of the house at the time of the attack, we are told, taking the kids to school.

There's a seventeen year old daughter ( might she be thinking about things like prom, parties, dates, summer weather, swimsuits, going away to college, riding in cars with boys?) with a "traditional" mother.

The victim was "beaten on the head repeatedly with a tire iron." How very intimate. I don't know many "terra-haters" who use tire irons as weapons--am I alone, here?

I just have a feeling there's more to this story than meets the immediate eye. I'll wait for the investigation to shake it all out.

Alzaidy said the attack apparently occurred after the father took the younger children to school. Alzaidy told the newspaper the family is from Iraq, and that Alawadi is a "respectful modest muhajiba," meaning she wears the traditional hijab, a head scarf.
The family had lived in the house in San Diego County for only a few weeks, after moving from Michigan, Alzaidy said. Alzaidy told the newspaper her father and Alawadi's husband had previously worked together in San Diego as private contractors for the U.S. Army, serving as cultural advisers to train soldiers who were going to be deployed to the Middle East.
El Cajon, northeast of downtown San Diego, is home to some 40,000 Iraqi immigrants, the second largest such community in the U.S. after Detroit.