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Article: Iraqi governing council member dies of wounds
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 25, 2003
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Aquila al-Hashimi, the first member of Iraq's
American-picked Governing Council to be targeted for assassination,
died Thursday, five days after she was shot in an ambush. In the
latest attack on foreigners in Baghdad, a bomb exploded outside a
hotel housing NBC staff, killing a Somali guard and injuring a
Canadian sound engineer.
Elsewhere, seven American soldiers were wounded Thursday in the
northern city of Mosul when two roadside bombs exploded as their
convoy passed. U.S. officials said one Humvee was destroyed and
another badly damaged in the attack, which took place about 9 a.m. on
the western side of the city.
Also Thursday, two suspected Iraqi resistance leaders ...