Who is Duncan Boothby? (Son or relative of Derek Boothby, UN Weapons Inspector?)
Who is Michael Hastings? (Duncan arranged the Rolling Stone piece.)
All appeared to be in Iraq during the first elections.
She worked at Air America. She did not support the Iraq war.
Andi’s Story
She Believed She Could, So She Did.
Andrea, “Andi,” Parhamovich was killed on January 17th, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq by a group of terrorists on her return from a political party training session. Born in the small town of Perry, OH on June, 16th, 1978, Andi came into this world wanting to make a positive difference through every experience that life had to offer. After graduating from Marietta College, Andi quickly satiated her affection for self-discovery and the unknown by moving to Boston, MA. She began her career in political communications with the Massachusetts Governor’s office and Department of Economic Development.
After leaving Boston in 2003, Andi moved to New York City and worked in the corporate communications office at Miramax Films and later at Air America Radio. Yet Andi’s fierce spirit and determination to make a difference in this world were made most apparent when she moved to Baghdad in August of 2006. Andi did not support the Iraq war; but believed strongly in promoting democracy and being a part of history in a positive way. She accepted a job with the International Republican Institute in Iraq before joining the National Democratic Institute in late 2006.
Andi wanted to use her education and skills as a communications specialist to help Iraqi political party leaders and parliamentarians develop strategies to reach out to voters and constituents. Andi’s work helped to build the kind of national level political institutions that can help bridge the sectarian divide and improve Iraqi lives.
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