On September 20, 2003, former Iraqi Foreign Service Senior Diplomat and current Governing Council Member Dr. “Aqila al-Hashemi was shot in the abdomen as she was leaving to attend a meeting of the Governing Council. …Nine assailants attacked her outside her house. She died three days later. Her security detail, mainly relatives, were insufficiently trained and inadequately armed to provide any serious protection.”
– Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 165