TWENTY-eight-year-old Mira Agustinas life is again in turmoil. The shocking news reached her at dawn early last week. Her husband, Umar al-Faruq, who disappeared four years ago, was reportedly killed in a raid launched by British troops in Basra, a city in Southern Iraq, on September 24.

Conveyed by the spokesman of the Prince of Wales Royal Regiment, Maj. Charles Burbridge, the report did not carry any visual proof. Nonetheless, the chief of the