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Family Turmoil of slain Iraqi-American woman revealed

Court papers filed by police in the beating death of an Iraqi-American woman near San Diego cite her divorce plans and daughter's apparent suicide attempt last year, but do not point to further evidence that the murder was a hate crime.Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old mother of five, was found bludgeoned in her rented home in a refugee community of the San Diego suburb of El Cajon on March 21 and died of her injuries several days later, after doctors removed her from life support.  A threatening note found at the scene has given rise to suggestions that Alawadi may have been targeted because of her ethnicity, though police have cautioned against drawing that conclusion during the investigation.   According to a search warrant affidavit filed last week and obtained by Reuters on Thursday, a relative of Alawadi told detectives the victim had "been planning on divorcing her husband and moving to the state of Texas." The documents show that divorce papers were found in h...