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How in the heck does the wife's cousin know all this???

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2 ... 03513.html

Hamidi, 48, said he could not go on talking and explained that he was in a bad state before passing on the telephone to his wife’s cousin Hussein Alwadi.

“I saw her body in the dinning room a few minutes before the police arrived,†her cousin told Al Arabiya.

He said the murderer snuck into the house on Wednesday morning from the back garden.

“The garden has no fence so he was able to break the glass of the kitchen window right away and apparently he did so without making a noise.â€

Hussein added that the attacker then reached for the window handle, opened it, and got inside.

“He did so after watching Shaima’s husband drive away with four of the children he was taking to school. Only Shaima and her eldest daughter Fatima stayed in the house. Fatima was asleep.â€

The murderer, Hussein recounted, saw Shaima in the dinning room and attacked her with an iron rod or a spanner.

“He first hit her on her forehead then on her right ear. The third strike was on the back of her head. This was followed by five fast and consecutive strikes on her head and shoulders.â€

Shaima, Hussein said, lost consciousness, upon which the attacker left the house.

“Because the attack was fast, the eldest daughter Fatima, who was asleep in the upper floor, did not hear a thing and only found out when she woke up and went downstairs to see her mother’s body drenched in blood.â€

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How in the heck does the wife's cousin know all this???

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2 ... 03513.html

Hamidi, 48, said he could not go on talking and explained that he was in a bad state before passing on the telephone to his wife’s cousin Hussein Alwadi.

“I saw her body in the dinning room a few minutes before the police arrived,†her cousin told Al Arabiya.

He said the murderer snuck into the house on Wednesday morning from the back garden.

“The garden has no fence so he was able to break the glass of the kitchen window right away and apparently he did so without making a noise.â€

Hussein added that the attacker then reached for the window handle, opened it, and got inside.

“He did so after watching Shaima’s husband drive away with four of the children he was taking to school. Only Shaima and her eldest daughter Fatima stayed in the house. Fatima was asleep.â€

The murderer, Hussein recounted, saw Shaima in the dinning room and attacked her with an iron rod or a spanner.

“He first hit her on her forehead then on her right ear. The third strike was on the back of her head. This was followed by five fast and consecutive strikes on her head and shoulders.â€

Shaima, Hussein said, lost consciousness, upon which the attacker left the house.

“Because the attack was fast, the eldest daughter Fatima, who was asleep in the upper floor, did not hear a thing and only found out when she woke up and went downstairs to see her mother’s body drenched in blood.â€

Perhaps there was some sort of autopsy done? I know that it isn't exactly in line with Islamic buriel practices to postpone burial for long enough to do an autopsy, but who knows.

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In the case of a murder, the family wouldn't have had a choice about an autopsy. It's a little odd all of the detail he had about the order of the blows and such. Perhaps from the autopsy or perhaps some literary license.

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I meant the parts where the attacker watched the husband drive away, and also that he saw her in the dining room. Maybe the article was just poorly written, because no one could know those specifics unless they were there watching the incident take place. I still think the daughter knows something.

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Update- cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57410556-504083/shaima-alawadi-iraqi-woman-killed-in-her-calif-home-was-planning-divorce-documents/

It seems she was planning to get divorced and arranged a marriage between her daughter and someone else. Interesting. And of course now the daughter and husband are out of the country and can't be questioned unless they return.

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I think this is a more believable scenario than a random hate crime singling her out for no apparent reason.

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Update- cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57410556-504083/shaima-alawadi-iraqi-woman-killed-in-her-calif-home-was-planning-divorce-documents/

It seems she was planning to get divorced and arranged a marriage between her daughter and someone else. Interesting. And of course now the daughter and husband are out of the country and can't be questioned unless they return.

crap usually the police would not let them leave. doubt we will ever see them again.

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Update- cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57410556-504083/shaima-alawadi-iraqi-woman-killed-in-her-calif-home-was-planning-divorce-documents/

It seems she was planning to get divorced and arranged a marriage between her daughter and someone else. Interesting. And of course now the daughter and husband are out of the country and can't be questioned unless they return.

I hate that I was possibly wrong, but I'm really not surprised.

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crap usually the police would not let them leave. doubt we will ever see them again.

I thought that was really bizzare that they would let them leave the country during a murder investigation. And your right. I highly doubt they will set foot on American soil again.

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Has anyone seen the video of her daughter? I can't decide if she's so distraught that she's acting weird, or if something fishy is going on.

No matter what, I can't believe that a woman was killed. I HATE racism and hope that any sort of religious persecution ends soon.

(Hey fundies-THIS is persecution. Having someone disagree with you isn't.)

ETA_this is the video I'm talking about

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RrnMYg62boM

I tweeted a synopsis to the moron Smuggar. Didn't have a link for the article, but there's enough detail that he can google it. He admitted he uses it. But I challenged him to THINK, so he'll probably ban me.

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even if it was not a hate crime, that is no way to treat a human being EVEN if she was a terrorist (which was settled that she is not).

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As I said I'd post an update if someone was arrested so here it is from channel 10 news.

EL CAJON, Calif. - An Iraqi man whose wife was fatally beaten in their East County home last spring in what initially appeared to be a hate crime pleaded not guilty to a murder charge Tuesday afternoon.

Kassim Irzoqi Alhimidi, 48, was ordered held without bail and is due back in court on Nov. 28 for a preliminary hearing to determine if there's enough evidence to order him to stand trial.

Deputy District Attorney Kurt Mechals told Judge Herbert Exarhos that Alhimidi had traveled to Iraq recently and was considered a flight risk.

The defendant, who faces 26 years to life in prison if convicted, was arrested last Thursday by El Cajon police. His wife, 32-year-old Shaima Alawadi, was found mortally injured in their Skyview Street residence on March 21. A threatening note was left "very close" to where she lay, Lt. Mark Coit said.

Police have declined to reveal the contents of the message, but the couple's 17-year-old daughter, Fatima, previously told reporters it read, in part, "go back to your country, you terrorist." Alawadi, a homemaker and mother of five, died of head injuries in a hospital three days later.

The grieving teen said her mother had been bludgeoned with a tire iron.

From the outset of their investigation into the slaying, police said they considered ethnic animosity only one of the possible motives.

Outside court, Mechals said El Cajon police spent "I don't know how many hours working on this case -- a huge amount -- doing a fantastic job trying to figure out whether this was a hate crime, or whether it was a domestic-violence murder."

"Obviously, the investigation has led to the conclusion that this was a domestic-violence murder and not a hate crime," the prosecutor said. "The family, like everyone else, wants to make sure that justice is achieved for their mother, their sister, and so forth. They trust the El Cajon Police Department. They know that they've put a lot of effort into this investigation. I think they probably hope that we're wrong, but at the same time, they're going to let the system sort it out."

Alawadi, who left her native country with her husband in 1991 to avoid running afoul of dictator Saddam Hussein, apparently had been planning to get a divorce and move with her children to Texas, where members of her family live, her brother told U-T San Diego.

At a March 27 memorial attended by religious dignitaries, dozens of mourners and a representative of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Alawadi's seemingly distraught spouse called on anyone with information about the deadly assault to come forward.

"If anyone knows anything about the murder, please don't be shy, and pass information to authorities," Alhimidi said in Arabic, with his youngest son, Mohammed, 15, translating his statements into English. "The main question we would like to ask is: Why did you do it, and what are you getting out of this?"

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Not surprised. I am a little shocked that he came back from Iraq though. When he left the country, I figured that he'd be gone for good.

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I'd really love to know more background on the family before saying that, but whenever a child or woman is kidnapped/murdered and a note is left behind I'm instantly suspicious. Honestly, I'm instantly suspicious of the family (namely the father/husband or mother) whenever something like this happens. Usually stuff like this is internal.

Unfortunately this was my first thought too - just seems a bit too... neat? (re; the Islamaphobic note I mean). I'd be looking at family/husband just to make sure.

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Oops- that'll teach me to read to the end of a thread before posting. Not surprised to hear the husband did it, sadly.

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Not surprised. I am a little shocked that he came back from Iraq though. When he left the country, I figured that he'd be gone for good.

I am sure he thought he got away with it. I mean that's the way it works from where he is from.

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As I said I'd post an update if someone was arrested so here it is from channel 10 news.

Tanks for posting this I was hoping for a follow up.

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