Iraq Council Member Shot, Critically Hurt

[Isere]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Aquila al-Hashimi, a member of Iraq 's Governing Council, was shot and critically wounded Saturday in an assassination attempt outside her home in western Baghdad, police and doctors said.
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The Governing Council member, Al-Hashimi, was in critical condition with abdominal wounds, a doctor at al-Yarmouk hospital said on condition of anonymity. After surgery she was moved to an unspecified location in a convoy of American armored vehicles and military ambulances.........

Members of al-Hashimi's security detail said the attack was carried out by men in two new SUVs. They fired rocket-propelled grenades that missed her car, then opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20030920/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Gee, George, not everyone is glad to have us there. What are you going to do now?

[wellst0nev0ter]

1. TPM Interview With Joseph Wilson

TPM: It is September 16th and it seems in the last couple months in Iraq we've basically gone through--quickly gone through--three phases, as near as I can tell. We had a period where there were fairly constant guerilla attacks, and then things escalated with a series of major bombings, and then the administration--first in sort of fits and starts and then in two or three major moves--did this reconfiguring of their policy. The president came forward with his budget request and the new overture towards the United Nations, and we're still trying to negotiate some sort of new arrangement with the international community. So, setting aside why we're in Iraq, how we go there, whether we should have gone in in the first place, where are we now? Where do you see our position right now?

WILSON: Well, I think we're fucked.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/sept0303.html#091803639pm

[Isere]

2. "Well, I think we're fucked."

Has a nice ring to it for a bumper sticker, no?

Succinct and needs no further comment. In fact, we should have issued this bumper sticker on December 13, 2000, the day after the Felonious Five installed George the Imposter in the White House.

[alcuno]

3. We're not guarding those people?

I can't believe that her brother was her bodyguard. Americans aren't guarding them? Oh wait, I'll bet Chalibi is guarded by Americans.

[TahitiNut]

4. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=124040