In Falluja

From the Scotsman:

United States marines found what was believed to be the body of a Western woman as they continued their offensive in the shattered Iraqi town of Fallujah yesterday.

The body has yet to be identified but only two Western women, British aid worker Margaret Hassan, 59, and Teresa Borcz Khalifa, 54, from Poland, are known to have been kidnapped in Iraq.

The mutilated body was discovered lying in the street covered with a blood-soaked cloth during a security sweep through the centre of Fallujah.

A US marine officer said he was “80 per cent sure” it was a Western woman.

Update: here’s more at the Australian (via Jihad Watch):

As hundreds of insurgents who escaped the US onslaught of Fallujah regrouped for further attacks across Iraq, the body of a blonde-haired Caucasian woman with her legs and arms cut off and throat slit was found last night in a street in the battle-torn city.
The discovery of the woman wearing a blue dress and with her face shockingly disfigured was made as US marines moved through the south of Fallujah, hunting the remaining diehard rebels after a week of fierce fighting to regain control of the city.

“It is definitely a Caucasian woman with long, blonde hair,” said a military official, who cut open a cover that had been over the corpse. Two Western women are known to have been kidnapped in Iraq. Teresa Borcz Khalifa, 54, a Polish-born longtime resident of Iraq, was seized last month and has blonde hair.

Margaret Hassan, 59, director of Care International in Iraq, was also abducted last month and has chestnut-coloured hair.

“It is a female … missing all four appendages, with a slashed throat and disembowelled, she has been dead for a while but only in this location for a day or two,” said Benjamin Finnell, a hospital apprentice with the Navy Corps, who inspected the body.