Another Reporter, Gone

The story of a brave, dead reporter -- the 106th journalist killed in Iraq:

The event, as far as we know now, was chillingly mundane and ruthlessly efficient. Visiting the nearby town of Irbil on an errand related to her work, Sahar decided to drive to Mosul for the day. Was it just to see friends and family? Perhaps to tend to some final logistical matters? Or was she pursuing a story?

It took only those few hours for extremists to discover she was there and to come for her in the morning. A group of assassins confronted her outside her home in the early hours and gunned her down. A statement to the local media claiming responsibility on behalf of the extremist group Ansar al-Sunna stated that she was cooperating with the Iraqi police and the occupying forces and was 'writing false reports about the mujaheddin to distort the truth.' When her cellphone rang after the deed, one of her killers said into the receiver, 'She has gone to hell.'"

Read the whole thing, please.