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Iraq council leader killed in baghdad Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aFWst8xUEPFI&refer=uk http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aFWst8xUEPFI&refer=uk Iraq's Council Leader Killed in Baghdad, Al-Jazeera Says May 17 (Bloomberg) -- The current head of the interim governing council in Iraq was killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Al Jazeera reported, citing a council member. Izzedine Salim, the holder of the council's rotating presidency, was killed in the attack on his four-car convoy near a U.S. base west of Baghdad, said Mohammed Othman, a governing council member, the Qatar-based station reported. The station showed footage of a car on fire with billowing smoke as U.S. helicopters roamed above and sirens wailed. U.S. troops cordoned off the area in the center of Baghdad, the station said. There was an explosion at a checkpoint near the so- called green zone, where the U.S. has its headquarters in Baghdad, said an American military spokeswoman who declined to be further identified. She gave no more details. The U.S.-Led Coalition in Iraq is planning to hand over power to the U.S.-chosen council on June 30 that will pave the way to the creation of an interim government. Two of Salim's brothers, who were acting as his bodyguards, may have been killed in the attack, al Arabiya television station said. Reporters aren't allowed near the site of the attack, it said. Akila Hashimi, a member of Iraq's governing council died in September last year after she was ambushed near her home in the Iraqi capital. She was a former Iraqi diplomat and a member of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's Baath party. (Jazeera 5-17) To contact the reporter responsible for this story: Dania Saadi in the Dubai bureau on at dsaadi2@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tim Coulter on tcoulter@bloomberg.net Last Updated: May 17, 2004 03:50 EDT

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