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KurdistanObserver.com
Iraqi First Lady
escapes Baghdad bombing
May 5, 2008
BAGHDAD (AFP)
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's wife, Hero Ibrahim Ahmed, escaped a roadside
bomb attack in the heart of Baghdad on Sunday that wounded her four bodyguards,
officials said.
The First Lady escaped unhurt as her convoy was hit by a roadside bomb while on
her way to the National Theatre in central Baghdad's Karrada district where she
was to attend a cultural programme, Talabani's office said in a statement.
Her four bodyguards were wounded, officials said, adding that it appeared to be
an indiscriminate attack in the tightly-guarded capital.
Ahmed is a daughter of well-known political activist Ibrahim Ahmed who was one
of the founders of the Kurdish Democratic Party, a leading political group in
northern Iraq.
Born in 1948, she graduated from Baghdad University and joined the peshmerga
forces with Talabani whom she married in 1970. |
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