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  • Shaima Alawadi, Iraqi mother beaten savagely in San Diego, dies
    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/120325/shaima-alawadi-hate-crime-iraq-california-beating

    An Iraqi mother of five living in San Diego, found severely beaten next to a threatening note saying “go back to your country,” died on Saturday.

    Alawadi, 32, had been on life support since Wednesday when her teenage daughter found her unconscious in the living room of their home in El Cajon in San Diego County, according to news reports.

    The Associated Press cited Hanif Mohebi of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization that advocates for Muslim civil liberties, as saying she was taken off life support on Saturday.

    “The family is in shock at the moment. They’re still trying to deal with what happened,” Mohebi said.

    Alawadi’s daughter, Fatima Alhamidi told CNN affiliate KGTV that her mother had been beaten on the head repeatedly with a tire iron, and that the note had threatened the family to go back to Iraq and called them “terrorists.”