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August 07, 2005
The Sunday Times Reviews the 'Death of an Idealist'
The August 7, 2005 edition The Sunday Times Online has a fascinating review of the "Death of an idealist." It's a long piece on American freelance journalist Steven Vincent, who was found murdered August 3, 2005, in Basra, Iraq.
While Mr. Vincent is touted as a hero by Democracy fundamentalist who want to impose their values on Iraqis and Muslims all over the world, he comes across in The Sunday Times as a man with a death wish. His persistent criticism of Basra politics and cultural mores almost assuredly marked him for death. This was compounded by, and may have been the tipping point, the flouting of his relationship with "Nooriya Tuaiz, an unusual 31-year-old Iraqi woman who had become both his Basra interpreter and close friend," according to The Times.
There is a hint in the story that Nooriya may have been Mr. Vincent's lover although his widower, Lisa Ramaci of New York, doesn't think they were intimately involved.
Meanwhile, Nooriya is recuperating under armed guard in a Kuwaiti hospital. Ms. Ramaci wants her brought to the United States after she is released.
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 7, 2005 04:17 PM
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