Back in May or June, before the Governing Council and the Coalition
Provisional Authority dissolved and were supplanted by the Interim
Government, I read a dispatch about an Iraqi female administrator.
She may have been in the Ministry of the Interior, or Health, or
Public Works. The article said she went around with 6 "burly
bodyguards". She was flamboyant and highly
regarded for efficiency and skills. Even Saddam tolerated her flamboyant
expression.
What happened to her? Is she OK?
After the Governing council was dissolved was she retained?
Was she assassinated (I heard about a hit about six weeks ago, and another today)?
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Request for Question Clarification by
pinkfreud-ga
on
27 Dec 2004 15:23 PST
Is this the woman?
http://fpc.state.gov/24544.htm
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Clarification of Question by
grthumongous-ga
on
27 Dec 2004 15:46 PST
No, I don't think it is. This lady is demure.
The other lady has black hair.
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Request for Question Clarification by
pinkfreud-ga
on
27 Dec 2004 15:46 PST
Here's a mention of the recent assassination of an Iraqi woman who had
political aspirations. Could this be the one?
"The Sunni party's announcement and the attack on the Shiite party
Monday came a day after a high-ranking member of the Democratic
Al-Umma al-Iraqiya (Iraqi Nation) party was shot and killed in front
of his house in Baghdad, party sources said.
In addition, Wijhad Al-Khuzaee, founder and chairwoman of the Women
and Democracy Foundation, also was killed near her house in the
capital, a Baghdad police source said Monday. Al-Kuzaee, a human
rights activist, spoke to CNN last spring about her desire to become
Iraq's first female president."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/27/iraq.main/index.html
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Request for Question Clarification by
markj-ga
on
27 Dec 2004 15:53 PST
grthumongous --
Among the few women that have reached the higher levels of the new
Iraqi government, the only one that I know of who was also an
"employee" of Saddam was Akila al-Hashiri, but she was assassinated in
September 2003. She did have bodyguards (her brothers), and she was
unusual in that she had in recent years been something of a women's
rights activist in Saddam's Iraq. Here is a link to a photo:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-10-20-danger-divide_x.htm
Are you certain that the woman you remember was still alive in mid-2004?
markj-ga
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Clarification of Question by
grthumongous-ga
on
27 Dec 2004 16:08 PST
Pink, the distinguished and accomplished woman you cite, Nasreen Berwari,
is a Kurdish person, so she is likely a Sunni Kurd.
http://home.cogeco.ca/~kurdistan5/2-12-04-opinion-chiman-refutes-goyi.html
I thought, and I could be wrong, that the mystery lady is a Sunni Arab.
Markj, sadly I don't think it is her either.
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In the photo I originally saw of the mystery woman she was wearing a spotted outfit.
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Clarification of Question by
grthumongous-ga
on
27 Dec 2004 16:14 PST
pink,
I could not find an image of the human-rights and democracy activist,
Wijhad Al-Khuzaee, outrageously assassinated, but I do not think she
is the one.
markj, as far as I know the mystery lady was alive in mid-2004 because
she was still in her post and the UN Algerian guy had not yet
architected the Interim Gov't.
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Request for Question Clarification by
markj-ga
on
27 Dec 2004 16:47 PST
grthumongous --
Here is an image of Raja Babib Khuzai:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/waronterror/iraq200404/08.html
Is she still in the running?
markj-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
markj-ga
on
27 Dec 2004 16:48 PST
Typo correction:
It should be Raja Habib Khuzai (also spelled Khuzaai and probably other ways).
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Clarification of Question by
grthumongous-ga
on
27 Dec 2004 16:53 PST
markj, I *wish* I could be more helpful but it is a different lady.
I am still searching too, in my clumsy way.
The mystery woman may have wheeled around Baghdad in a BMW.
She dressed more like a Southern European business woman or cabinet member.
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Clarification of Question by
grthumongous-ga
on
27 Dec 2004 18:49 PST
Pink, Nasreen Berwari is a very elegantly dressed lady but I don't
think she is the one.
I may have seen the mystery woman in a CNN internet news article, but
I have done site-specific searches and not found it. It could be any
major news organization......
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