Riverbend talks about how Akila Al-Hashimi had an assassination attempt on her. She was attacked on her way to work by two trucks who surrounded her vehicle which also had her two brothers, who are her body guards. Once they surrounded the car they opened fire onto the car that Akila was in and injured her. Once the neighboring people heard the gunshots, they acquired weapons from their homes and started attacking the attackers of Akila. Akila had her stomach operated on before being escorted by American soldiers to what Riverbend believes to be the Hospital at the Baghdad Airport that the Americans set up. The total amount of damage that happened to Akila included gunshot wounds to the foot, the shoulder, and the stomach. She had been in bad shape, and her condition included that she was in critical condition, but she was also stable. I like the quote that Riverbend gives at the end of this post because she talks about how the people who did this need to be punished, “I really hope they find whoever did this, and I hope the punishment is severe(Baghdad Burning, 76)”.
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