15 November 2011  In Iraq, Juliet's Father and Brothers Would
Have Killed Her  Rand Abdel-Qader, 17, [was] murdered because of
her infatuation with a British soldier in Basra, southern Iraq,
[and] her father is defiant. Sitting in the front garden of his
well-kept home in the city's Al-Fursi district, he remains a
free man, despite having stamped on, suffocated and then stabbed
his student daughter to death.  Abdel-Qader, 46, a government
employee, was initially arrested but released after two hours.
Astonishingly, he said, police congratulated him on what he had
done. 'They are men and know what honour is,' he said.  Rand,
who was studying English at Basra University, was deemed to have
brought shame on her family after becoming infatuated with a
British soldier, 22, known only as Paul.  She died a virgin,
according to her closest friend Zeinab. Indeed, her
'relationship' with Paul, which began when she worked as a
volunteer helping displaced families and he was distributing
water, appears to have consisted