Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated (fwd)

[Trei, Peter]

> Jim Choate[SMTP:ravage at einstein.ssz.com] wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:06:45 -0500 (CDT)
> Subject: Inferno: Akila Al-Hashimi assassinated
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> 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

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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.
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