Andrea Parhamovich, 28, of Perry, Ohio was killed yesterday.... in Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/world/middleeast/18cnd-iraq.html?em&ex=1169269200&en=9dbbbf4b994efe7c&ei=5087%0A

American Woman Was Killed After Visit to Sunni Office


Andrea Parhamovich

An American woman who was killed here on Wednesday had just left the headquarters of a prominent Sunni political party, where she had been teaching a class on democracy, when her convoy of vehicles was ambushed by gunmen.

Members of the Iraqi Islamic Party said the American woman — Andrea Parhamovich, 28, of Perry, Ohio —left the party’s fortified compound in western Baghdad around 4 p.m. in a three-vehicle convoy, headed east toward the Green Zone, when she and her armed guards came under attack from all sides.

Les Campbell, Middle East and North Africa director for the National Democratic Institute, which hired Ms. Parhamovich about three months ago, said a fierce firefight ensued. Guards tried to escape, fought back, and then called for reinforcements from other private security contractors.

The attackers — perhaps as many as 30, Mr. Campbell said, according to witness accounts reaching him — used heavy weapons, possibly including grenades. He said they destroyed the vehicle that Ms. Parhamovich was in, killing three of her armed guards, and then melted away into the neighborhood.

[journalist3072]

1. She used to work for Air America Radio...Randi Rhodes and Rachel Madodow mentioned her today n/t

[Gman]

4. Al Franken was very visibly upset

cut off the end of his talk with Tom Oliphant and didn't do his "what we have learned" schtick.

[journalist3072]

6. Bless his heart. I didn't really get to listen to him today because

Our local progressive talk station changed their line-up. They used to air Al Franken's show live at 12 Noon, and then Ed Shultz at 3 PM. However, they switched, and now they have Shultz on at Noon, Franken on at 3 PM.

I'm not happy about this at all because Al Sharpton's radio show comes on at 3:00 as well, so I'm caught between trying to listen to Sharpton and Franken.

Anyways, I could tell Rachel and Randi were really upset as well. I felt so bad for them.

[Botany]

2. Damn .... I have done business in Perry Oh for years

Great nursery county



R.I.P. Andrea Parhamovich

[Botany]

3. dupe

[tinfoilinfor2005]

5. The song that was playing on tv while I read this post:

What Are You Doing the Rest Of Your Life?

-Music by Michel Legrand lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

I want to see your face in every kind of light
In fields of dawn and forests of the night
And when you stand before the candles on a cake
Oh, let me be the one to hear the silent wish you make

What are you doing the rest of your life?
North and South and East and West of your life
I have only one request of your life
That you spend it all with me

All the seasons and the times of your days
All the nickels and the dimes of your days
Let the reasons and the rhymes of your days
All begin and end with me

I want to see your face in every kind of light
In the fields of dawn and the forests of the night
And when you stand before the candles on a cake
Oh, let me be the one to hear the silent wish you make

Those tomorrows waiting deep in your eyes
In the world of love that you keep in your eyes
I'll awaken what's asleep in your eyes
It may take a kiss or two

Through all of my life
Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall of my life
All I ever will recall of my life
Is all of my life with you

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How many beautiful young lives are now gone.

[Marie26]

7. So tragic. nt