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Article: Aquila al-Hashimi dies five days after assassination attempt, bomb attack on NBC-TV hotel
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- September 25, 2003
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STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
09-25-2003
BAGHDAD, Iraq _ Aquila al-Hashimi, one of three women on Iraq's American-picked Governing Council, died Thursday, five days after she was critically wounded in an assassination attempt. A bomb exploded outside the hotel where an American television network is located, killing a Somali guard and injuring a Canadian sound engineer.
Al-Hashimi died about 11:30 a.m., said Gary Thatcher, coalition director of strategic communications.
She was ambushed and critically wounded with gunshots to the abdomen by six men in a pickup truck while driving near her home in western Baghdad Saturday as she prepared to attend the United Nations ...
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