Atwar Bahjat...
From Iraq...
Even with the necklace she was wearing, the last time she was seen alive, the last time she had seen the setting sun outside Samarra, the city that saw her coming to this world 30 years ago; and saw her departing it...
She lived a life looking for the Truth, and she is now in Heaven, where the utmost truth is. She was killed with 2 other colleagues, after trying and failing to enter Samarra all day long on the 23 Feb. 2006.
Her last time on the air was shortly after 3 pm GMT, from a place on the northern outskirts of Samarra.
Another sad day, not only for an Iraqi mother and a younger sister; not only for colleagues; but for viewers in a sad country, in a sad part of the world; which seems to get sadder, i am afraid.
God bless your soul, Atwar Bahjat of Al-Arabiya, as well as your colleagues, Adnan & Khalid, you have all been couragous, you have been Iraqis.
