sahar hussein ali al-haydari, hero?

or was she just like you and me? woman, mother, patriot, journalist, neighbor

heros ARE ordinary people

she gave her life to tell a story AND to save her country (and so did 105 OTHER journalists in iraq since 2003)

A Reporter Pays Iraq's Final Price

By Anthony Borden

We do not know why Sahar went that last time to Mosul. But we do know why she was killed. A democrat, a journalist and a woman -- it's a lethal combination in Iraq.
Sahar Hussein Ali al-Haydari, 44, was fearless in writing about attempts by extremists to establish an Iraqi Islamic emirate based around her home town of Mosul. She was harsh on efforts to foment sectarian conflict: The last article we received was a Romeo and Juliet tale of a girl stoned to death for converting from Yezidism (a Kurdish sect) to Islam because she fell in love with a Muslim boy. She wrote, too, about restrictions placed on women by religiously driven insurgents........