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Article: Aquila al-Hashimi dies five days after attack, only holdover from Saddam regime on Governing Council
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- September 25, 2003
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STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
09-25-2003
Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq
Aquila al-Hashimi, the only member of Saddam Hussein's regime to be chosen by Iraq's American occupiers to sit on the interim Governing Council, died Thursday, five days after she was gunned down near her west Baghdad home.
The attack on al-Hashimi was the latest in a series of assaults against Iraqis who have worked openly with the United States as it seeks to put down a guerrilla war and rebuild the country after overthrowing Saddam on April 9.
Al-Hashimi was ambushed and critically wounded by six men in a pickup truck while driving near her home in western Baghdad Saturday as she prepared to attend ...
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