some of these kinds of violence continuing to be horrors by certain individuals and factions in the new iraq . mahmoud stated , " in the second eighteen months at least sixteen girls have been killed in mosul alone - all apparently by islamic groups clamping down on female independence . among these , a professor from the town ' s legal school was shot and beheaded , a vet was killed on her way to home , and a pediatrician from the alkhansah hospital was gunshot dead on her approach . "
Women in Iraq have lost their freedom.