Jim Choate[SMTP:ravage@einstein.ssz.com] wrote:

---------- 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.

I don't have much trust in the US media, but this is nonsense. The assasination attempt was covered by the NYT among others. I heard about it on the radio at the weekend, and it was on Yahoo News. Peter Trei --------------------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/international/middleeast/21IRAQ.html BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 20 - In the first attempt to assassinate a member of Iraq's interim government, nine gunmen this morning shot and critically wounded Akila al-Hashemi, one of three women on the governing body, as she was being driven to work by a driver and three bodyguards. [...]