motivations

"they (the US soldiers) held her down, a 14 year old girl, and raped her one by one while her mother, father, and five year old brother were locked in the next room, hearing her scream, and banging on the door for them to stop. Finally the noise bothered one of the soldiers so much he went next door and killed each of them, starting with the little boy. Then he came back, took his turn in raping her, and they shot her to kill her once he was done. They poured petrol over her still moving body and set it alight, and tried to hide the bodies of the family. They left the house, changed out of their black clothes and burned them. They were back at camp in less than half an hour."

The murder of Abeer Qassim Al-Janabi (and her family)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeer_Qassim_Hamza

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1926954,00.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/03/AR2006070301206.html

It is my strong personal belief that this shouldn't happen to anyone in this day and age. This alone is enough to make me want to fight for a better world, a more moral place, where children are free from such terrors. I want a peaceful just world, where no one can ever do this sort of thing to another.