I was struck by this passage from today’s Globe and Mail on the murder of Canadian Zaid Meerwali in Iraq:
Mr. Meerwali was targeted because he was a Shia Kurd, his brother said. “We are Shia. Shia believe in democratic society.” Munir blamed former Baath officials and Sunni insurgents for the slaying. “They don’t like to see people from Canada coming over there. They lost their businesses.”…Mr. Meerwali’s family said he studied at Toronto’s Seneca College to become a chartered accountant and that he went to Baghdad six months ago to start a business importing food and computers.
Has it really come to being a turf war about the wholesale trade? This makes me very sad and I am not sure exactly why other than the obvious loss of a very promising person who tried to do the right thing.