1.0 link 35332 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nina-burleigh/lets-not-forget-to-kill-a_b_35332.html A few weeks before he was murdered last month by gun-wielding men on motorcycles on the streets of Baghdad, the head of the Association of University Lecturers in Iraq, Assam al-Rawi, wrote an open letter published in an English-language Lebanese newspaper. Al-Rawi, a geologist, described repeated and inexplicable attacks on his institution's building by Iraqi and American soldiers, and asked for outside help. The letter was in a way more shocking than the violence that eventually did him in: Two...

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