On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 10:56 AM, Trei, Peter wrote:

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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.

Her shooting was widely reported when it happened a few days ago, on CNN, leading newspapers, and presumably on other networks. One of her bodyguards was killed, and her brother was either injured or killed, I don't recall. Lots of footage of her planning to be the first useful idiot, er, politician, to serve in both the U.S.-funded Saddam regime and the U.S.-funded post-Saddam regime. Perhaps these networks and newspapers are not carried on Choate Prime, the parallel world that is strangely different from our own. --Tim May