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Article: 4 Americans Die in Attack During Sadr City Meeting; State Dept. Governance Specialist Is Among Victims
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- June 25, 2008
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Steven L. Farley, a State Department official working to build up
the local government in the Baghdad enclave of Sadr City, knew he
and his colleagues had taken a bold step, his son Brett recalled
Tuesday.
Farley and other U.S. officials had learned that the Sadr City
District Council's acting chairman was loyal to the anti-American
Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and had urged other members of the
local advisory group to force the man to resign.
That was last week. On Tuesday, Farley, 57, and three other
Americans were killed when a bomb exploded in the District Council
building, just minutes before the selection of a new chairman was to
begin.
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