Gunmen have killed three Iraqi women in the Shia district of Sadr City in Baghdad, police say.

The trio were said to have been shot as they stood on a street corner.

Police said they believed the women had been accused by a religious movement of being prostitutes, and were not killed for political reasons....

--BBC yesterday

Er, what happened to "Democracy! Whiskey! Sexy!"?

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(Yeah, yeah, I know -- prostitution is more grim than sexy...)