Police are appealing to the public for help in nabbing the killer of an Iraqi immigrant and mother of five found brutally beaten inside her San Diego-area home.

Shaima Alawadi, 32, was found unconscious Wednesday morning by her teenage daughter in the dining room of the family's home in El Cajon, Calif.

The woman's 17-year-old daughter, Fatima Alhimidi, told KUSI-TV that her mother had been beaten with a tire iron and that a note was left in the home saying, "go back to your country, you terrorist."  

Investigators have so far not ruled out any motive -- including the possibility that Alawadi was the victim of a hate crime.

Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, reportedly said Monday that the government has asked that the woman's body be flown to Baghdad, while lawmakers in her native country press for a more thorough investigation. 

Alawadi, who wore a traditional Muslim hijab or headscarf, had recently moved back to San Diego County with her family after living in a suburb of Detroit.