Posted on 05/17/2004 5:01:33 AM PDT by genefromjersey
Izzadine Salim ,head of the Iraqi Provisional Governing Council was among 10 Iraqis murdered this morning in a car bombing. 6 other Iraqia were seriously wounded,and 2 US soldiers were slightly wounded.
The bombing occurred as the 5 vehicle convoy in which the victims were riding slowed for a US checkpoint near the Governing Council buildings. A red Volkswagen sped up,alongside Salim's vehicle,and detonated with enormous force.
Salim is the 2nd Council member to be murdered.Akila Hashimi was gunned down on September 20,2003,and perished 5 days later.
The attack,per the wire services,does not bode well for the scheduled June 20th transfer of power to the Iraqis.
You will doubtless be heartened to know at least 2 of the wire services-Reuters and Agence France Presse-managed to "tie in" this important story with some off-hand comments about "the growing prisoner torture scandal"-although the comments had NO relationship to the story they were reporting.
AP needs to check their editing. It is a June 30th handover, not June 20th.
That was probably my mistake (quick scan).
Oh, that ok then. I thought you had done a copy paste thing instead of hand typing it.
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