---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:06:45 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated A representative on the US appointed Governing Council in Iraq has died of wounds from an assassination attempt this past Saturday. She was one of three women representatives on the 25-member council. Strangely enough, we are only hearing word of this assassination attempt today in the West; now that she has in fact died it is newsworthy, I suppose? Or perhaps just inconcealable. Riverbend briefly discusses the attempt in her Sunday September 21st blog entry: http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ Here is a sampling of western coverage: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/25/1064083125418.html http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7376906%255E27... http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/09/25/sprj.irq.main/index.html