| Submit your comments on this article |
| Iraq |
| Shot Iraq council member dies |
| 2003-09-25 |
| EFL A female member of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council has died five days after being shot, the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority has said. Aqila al-Hashimi was ambushed near her home on Saturday by gunmen, who attacked her convoy with machine guns and a bomb. She was being treated for gunshot wounds to the stomach. The attack on Hashimi was the first assassination of a member of the council. A career diplomat, Dr Hashimi was one of three women members of the 25-member council and the only former Baathist to occupy a council post. She had had a high profile in the old regime, serving as a senior member of the foreign ministry in Saddam Hussein’s government. |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #4 I am overwhelmed by the outcry from NOW and the rest of the liberal women's groups protesting this vicious attack on a woman's right to be part of the new Iraqi government! |
| Posted by: Jim R 2003-9-26 4:35:21 PM |
| #3 Plenty of empty pedestals around waiting for a bronze statue or two. Hope they tell her security detail theat the intension is to bury them alongside her. Then we'll see which of them ratted her schedule to her enemies. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-9-25 11:20:14 AM |
| #2 No disrespect intended, LH, but I would like to not think of her as a martyr. I appreciate her loss, but I've had enough of martyrs and we need to reform the "martyr mentality" out of that whole region. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2003-9-25 10:29:45 AM |
| #1 A martyr to Iraqi democracy. May she be long remembered. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-9-25 9:30:23 AM |