Iraqi security forces raided the man's house in Mandili, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, to search for Shahla Najim al-Anbaky after receiving information that she had ties to the Sunni Islamist militant group.
They arrested her father, Najim Abd al-Anbaky, on Thursday when he confessed he had killed his daughter and buried her body near his house, said Major Ghalib al-Jubouri, a police spokesman in Diyala province.
"He confessed he killed her when he learned she worked for al Qaeda and she wanted to blow herself up," Jubouri said. The man guided security forces to his daughter's grave, he said. Diyala, a mainly Sunni Arab province with significant Shi'ite and Kurdish populations, has seen some of the worst violence since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Should I commend the man or denounce him, or perhaps both?
ReplyDeleteI feel rather ambivalent about this. I suspect I'd give him a slap on the wrist; it must have been incredibly difficult for him to kill his own daughter.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't there have been a better way for him to respond to this knowledge? Restrain her and contact the authorities, or something?
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