Baghdad, Sept 21: Akila al-Hashimi, an Iraqi Governing Council member shot by unknown assailants, is in serious but stable condition after her second operation overnight, a Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) spokesman said today. "She was operated during the night and the last we heard was that she is stable but still in a serious condition," the CPA spokesman said. "She is under constant observation."
Hashimi's two-car convoy was ambushed yesterday in the first attempt to assassinate an official of the us-installed administration. At least five men in a pickup truck and backup car lobbed a bomb and sprayed Kalashnikov fire as she was being driven to work. She was shot several times.
Hashimi, a prominent Shiite diplomat and foreign policy expert, is one of three women on the 25-member interim Governing Council formed in July by the US-led coalition which overthrew Saddam Hussein. Bureau Report