More stomach wrenching. More disgust...

[This is really a sickening story. I think it's an important one, but as with the beheadings of Daniel Pearl and others, it's hard to know how many details are important and how many are too many. Certainly in that earlier case, I knew what had happened, but carefully avoided seeing the video. So I'll just leave this large disclaimer at the top: I won't think any less of anyone who has had enough of the story of the latest outrage in Iraq and doesn't want to read any further. --Liam]

More details are out regarding the premeditated stalking, rape and murder of an Iraqi woman, the murder of her family, and the burning of her body.

Specifically, the term "Iraqi woman" in earlier reports is somewhat misleading. She was a 15 year old girl.

She passed almost daily through a checkpoint manned by the alleged purpetrators (U.S. soldiers). They made lewd suggestions and come-ons to her, so much so that she complained to her parents that she was afraid of them. Her parents had made arrangements for her to begin living with a neighbor (to make it harder to find her), but the attack happened before that plan could start.

Liam.