Posted on 06/24/2010 4:00:56 AM PDT by maggief
Andrea, “Andi,” Parhamovich
Comedian and radio show host Al Franken, who worked with Parhamovich at the liberal radio company Air America for about 18 months, said he was devastated by her death.
A run for Congress also was in her dreams.
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Michael Hastings has packed quite a bit into his 28 years. Drugs. Alcohol. Rehab. War. Love. Death.
It’s the death part that Hastings, a correspondent for Newsweek, didn’t count on quite so early.
His fiancée, Andi Parhamovich, a feisty, opinionated and idealistic 28-year-old aid worker in Iraq, was killed Jan. 17, 2007, in a car bombing. Hastings was there covering the war.
Parhamovich, an American from Ohio, was killed while attending a meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters. “When that happened, I had a lot to say,” Hastings says.
And so he did, taking a leave from work and spending two months in the winter of 2007, right after her death, chain-smoking Parliament Lights while writing in his parents’ attic in Burlington, Vt. He says he did it “to survive. It never was a real choice.”
Hastings and Parhamovich met in 2005 in New York while he was working at the magazine and she was a publicist for Air America Radio. They had a whirlwind, roller-coaster romance that included romantic rendezvous in European capitals.
He’s well aware he’s on a journey, one that has taken him from drug abuse in college, then to rehab, back to college and finally to his high-profile job.
“But I’m still pretty much messed up. It’s one day at a time.”
03/13/08
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-03-31-hastings-iraq_N.htm
http://cnettv.cnet.com/andi-parhamovich-boyfriend/9742-1_53-50066371.html
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Key words ... Kofi Anan, United Nations, Vermont, ... (Derek Boothby???)
Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andi_Parhamovich
The General Assembly of Vermont passed a resolution commemorating Parhamovich’s actions in Iraq. Magdy Martinez, Executive Head, United Nations Democracy Fund in a message of condolences described Parhamovich’s legacy: “The murderers who ended her life and the lives of her guards also knew this very well and wanted probably to kill the freedom Andrea represents when using their tools of assassins against her.”
The United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) was established by Secretary-General Kofi Annan in July 2005 at the African Union Summit in Syrte, Libya, as a United Nations General Trust Fund under his authority. Its primary purpose is to support democratization throughout the world. UNDEF finances projects that build and strengthen democratic institutions, promote human rights, and ensure the participation of all groups in democratic processes.
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http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/legdoc.cfm?URL=/docs/2008/acts/ACTR095.HTM
http://www.un.org/democracyfund/XNewsNDIDemWorkerKilled.htm
Inside Saddam's death lab
February 14, 1999
London Times
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/02/14/stirevnws01001.html?
EXCERPT
The first nuclear, chemical and missile inspections, which were fairly straightforward, inventory-taking inspections as opposed to no-notice inspections, had been announced in advance. By contrast, Kelly wanted his no-notice inspection to be as much of a surprise as possible so that the Iraqis had no time to prepare. Somehow, this did not filter through to the office of Derek Boothby, Unscom’s deputy director of operations, a former Royal Navy officer who was responsible for relations with the news media. He announced seven days in advance that Kelly would lead a biological weapons inspection team into Iraq.
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