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Mohamed Ahmed E A Al-Hashemi, a Qatari national in the United States on a student visa, is dead after he attacked an Arizona State Trooper on patrol in the area of Rural Road just south of the Loop 202 in Tempe.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Iraqi Tawafuq (accordance) Front has released the following statement through its representative Focus on Advocacy & Advancement of International Relations (FAAIR). His Excellency Vice President of the Republic of Iraq Mr. Tariq Al-Hashemi declared today his approval of President George W. Bush's new strategy and proposed call for additional US troops in Iraq, announced on Wednesday, January 8, 2007. His Excellency Mr. Al-Hashemi noted the President Bush's new strategy on Iraq is markedly different from other strategies implemented so far and that the request for additional US troops will greatly aid in stabilizing the current security...

Fri September 26, 2003 08:00 AM ET By Fiona O'Brien and Rosalind Russell BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Grieving Iraqis paid their last respects on Friday to an assassinated U.S.-appointed politician, as the United Nations pulled more staff out of the country following two suicide bomb attacks. The murder of Akila al-Hashemi, who died on Thursday five days after assassins opened fire on her car, and the U.N. pullout were fresh setbacks to U.S. efforts to speed the process of building a credible Iraqi government and win more international help to police and rebuild the country. In the town of Baquba, a...

BAGHDAD, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Akila al-Hashemi, a member of Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council, has died from wounds sustained in a gun attack on Saturday, the head of the country's U.S.-led administration said on Thursday. "On behalf of the Coalition Provisional Authority and all its members, I offer condolences to her family, her colleagues on the Governing Council and the people of Iraq," Paul Bremer said in a written statement. Gunmen fired on a car carrying Hashemi, a career diplomat from a prominent Shi'ite Muslim family, near her home in a Baghdad suburb on Saturday morning. She sustained wounds...

Caption This Picture - Abdel Razzaq Al-Hashemi and Louis Farrakhan beginning to confer in Baghdad, Iraq Friday More here and here.