Iraqi council member dies from wounds

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Iraqi council member dies from wounds
Thursday 25 September 2003, 12:47 Makka Time, 9:47 GMT

The Iraqi Governing Council member who survived an attempted assassination last week has died of her wounds.

Aqila al-Hashimi was declared clinically dead late on Wednesday night.

She had undergone two unsuccessful stomach operations at a US military hospital in the compound of Saddam Hussein's former Republican Palace in Baghdad.

US occupation administrator, Paul Bremer, released a statement offering his "condolences to her family, her colleagues on the Governing Council and the people of Iraq".

Council chairman and convicted fraudster Ahmad Chalabi, speaking from New York, said al-Hashimi was certain to be missed.

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Al-Hashimi: Baathist who survived the purge
Thursday 25 September 2003, 17:12 Makka Time, 14:12 GMT

Aqila al-Hashimi, the assassinated member of Iraq's US-installed administration, was an accomplished technocrat who moved easily from Saddam Hussein's regime to the US occupation.

She was one of three women on the Governing Council set up in July, a foreign policy expert who played a major role in efforts by the fledgling Iraqi leadership to assert itself on the domestic and world scene.

With a bachelor's degree in law and a doctorate in French literature, al- Hashimi shunned the veil and became a women's rights advocate while also a passionate champion of her battered country.

A career diplomat and Shia Muslim, she found political favour both in Saddam Hussein’s government and under the US occupation.

A one-time member of Saddam's Baath party and protégé of former deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz, the self-proclaimed technocrat handled relations with international organisations under the old regime.

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