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WOUNDED. AKILA AL-HASHEMI, 50, one of three female members of Iraq's U.S.-backed Governing Council and a leading candidate for the job of Iraq's U.N representative; by a bullet to the abdomen, fired by gunmen near her home in western Baghdad as she was being driven to work; in the first assassination attempt on a member of the interim government. Doctors said al-Hashemi was in critical but stable condition after surgery...
...DIED. Akila al-Hashemi, 50, one of three women in the 25-member Iraqi Governing Council; of gunshot wounds suffered in an ambush five days earlier; in Baghdad. Al-Hashemi eschewed marriage for a career in Saddam Hussein's foreign service. She was the only member of the U.S.-backed government from the deposed regime and was tipped to become Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations. Her assailants have not been apprehended...
...even though Pyongyang promptly announced the program was proceeding). Even proud Iran was making conciliatory noises. The newspapers in Tehran were hot with argument over a proposed public referendum on whether to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Great Satan. The idea was floated by former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the cleverest politician in the country, one who has positioned himself between the reformers and the mullahs, with links to both camps...
...even though Pyongyang promptly announced the program was proceeding). Even proud Iran was making conciliatory noises. The newspapers in Tehran were hot with argument over a proposed public referendum on whether to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Great Satan. The idea was floated by former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the cleverest politician in the country, one who has positioned himself between the reformers and the mullahs, with links to both camps...
...IRAN Warring Words Iran responded angrily to continued U.S. claims that it is developing weapons of mass destruction. One military leader warned of "another Vietnam" if the U.S. struck Iran, and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that the U.S. would find itself in a "bloody swamp." Amid the rhetoric was one sign of detente: after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell accused Iran of trying to destabilize the interim Afghan government, Tehran said it may deport an Afghan warlord who opposes the Kabul regime...