Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated (fwd)

[Tim May]

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

>> Jim Choate[SMTP:ravage at 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