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On Saturday, Aquila al- Hashimi, a Governing Council member and strong candidate to become Iraq’s representative at the United Nations, was serious ly wounded by six gunmen in a pickup truck who chased her in her car on Saturday. She underwent a second operation and was in stable con dition at a military hospital on the grounds of one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces where the Coalition Provisional Authority has its headquarters, an official with the U.S.-led civilian administration said on Sunday. Al-Hashimi had been prepar ing to leave for a key U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Tuesday. Major U.S. allies are pressing for Washington to give the United Nations a greater role in bring ing stability to this fractured country. The Governing Council pres ident blamed Saddam loyalists for the shooting. U.S.-led forces have been struggling to put down a guer rilla-style insurgency that has targeted Americans and their Iraqi allies.The police chief of the central town of K h a 1 d i y a h , who was work ing with U.S. forces, was assassinated by gunmen last week, and other attacks have killed police recruits trained by the Americans. Last month, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al- Hakim, a top Shiite cleric who leads a movement with a seat on the Governing Council, was killed in a car bombing that left at least 85 people dead. Al-Hakim’s brother, Abdel-Aziz, is a council member. Saturday’s attack came at 9 a.m., when gunmen fired a rock et-propelled grenade on al- Hashimi’s car soon after she left her house in western Baghdad, members of her security detail said. The grenade missed, and the attackers opened fire with assault rifles. Liras Shams al-Din, 30, a security guard at a school near where the shooting occurred, said a pickup truck carrying six bearded men armed with Kalashnikovs, and two cars chased al-Hashimi’s vehicle. When Shams al-Din opened fire on the pickup, the three vehi cles of attackers turned around and fled. Al- Hashimi’s car crashed through a house’s gate at the end of the street and into a parked car. Shams al-Din said he found her conscious, moaning in pain and bleeding. Ahmad Chalabi, the president of the Governing Council for September, said al-Hashimi’s attackers “were remnants of the Baathist regime and Saddam’s assassins,” referring to Saddam’s former ruling Baath party. “The members of the Governing Council and minis ters will not be intimidated by the terrorists,” Chalabi said in a statement. He said al-Hashimi had received threats recently. Baghdad police commander Brig. Gen. Ahmed Ibrahim told The Associated Press that no one had been arrested in the attack and he refused to say who might be behind it. The 25-member Governing Council was established by the U.S.-led coalition in mid-July to put an Iraqi face on the process of rebuilding the country. The White House denounced the assassination attempt. Spokeswoman Suzy DeFrancis called it a “tragic situation” that is a part of a “continuing pattern” in which insurgent forces attack signs of success in the process of Iraq’s transition to democracy. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s office issued a statement saying, “Violence such as the murderous attack on Dr. al- Hashimi only retards that process and that goal.” Al-Hashimi has emerged as a leading foreign policy figure on the council, participating in a delegation that addressed the United Nations in July. At Tuesday’s General Assembly session, the council delegation will try to assume Iraq’s U.N. seat — and if it succeeds, many U.N. diplomats expected al- Hashimi to be named Iraq’s rep resentative. Chalabi said in his statement that the council delegation would attend the U.N. session, but did not say whether al-Hashimi would be replaced. The continuing instability has raised questions about America’s stewardship of Iraq since President Bush declared an end to major combat opera tions on May 1. The members of the Governing Council and ministers will not be intimidated bv the terrorists. — Ahmad Chalabi President of the Council 3, 2/2 house, new !*(■ $150 deposit, utiltepai bd/2ba duplex avaife o total. 903-277-0109. ided 4bed-2bath. Onebs i. 1209 Austin Ave. Ci leeded. Country 3bills. Pets okay, y. Erin 979-589-2466. ERVICES efensive Driving. Lots*! it!! Ticket dismissal/insuT t. M-T(6pm-9pm), Wj Fri.&Sat.- Fri(6pm-8pif 0pm), Sat(8am-2:30piri serving you 20yrs. 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Reed as its interim leader Sunday fora salary of $1, less than a week after its previous chairman was forced to step down amid outrage about his compensation. Reed, 64, who left Citi in 2000 after los ing a power struggle with then co-chairman Sanford I. Weill, will temporarily replace Dick Grasso, exchange officials announced at a hastily called news conference. In a phone conference from France, where he was vacationing, Reed said there had been some failures in corporate gover nance at the exchange and he would make the issue a priority. “I have seen crises quite comparable to what the NYSE has gone through ... and clearly it did not help anyone,” Reed said. He declined to comment on Grasso or the circumstances of Grasso’s departure but said he realized the gravity of the situation. Grasso’s pay package of $187.5 million was considered excessive by many on and off Wall Street. Reed, who said he will be paid $1 for his work, will start at the exchange as interim chairman on Sept. 30, but he said he plans to start talking to other NYSE executives Monday morning. He said that he hopes to have a perma nent NYSE head in “months, and not years,” and that he is not a candidate for the permanent job. A search committee led by Laurence Fink, CEO of investment group BlackRock Inc., will look for a permanent replacement for Grasso. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson released a statement in which he praised Reed for his “impeccable credentials ... which will be crucial as he works with the NYSE Board to ensure the highest standards of gover nance.” Interim leader named for NYSE The New York Stock Exchange announced John S. Reed as its temporary leader on Sunday, less than a week after its previous chairman, Dick Grasso, was forced to step down. Reed, the former Citigroup chairman and CEO, will start as interim chairman on Sept. 30. Age - 64 Hometown — Chicago Education - Undergraduate degrees from Washington and Jefferson College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; master's degree from MIT; U.S. Army. Career — Former chairman and co-chief executive of Citigroup, 1998-2000; chairman and chief executive of Citicorp and Citibank, 1984-1998. Joined Citibank in 1965. SOURCE: Associated Press AP Reed’s appointment is the latest effort by the NYSE to restore its image following the debacle with Grasso, which many said rep resented a failure of corporate governance at the institution. The board has come under fire for approving Grasso’s pay package and under pressure from federal regulators to revamp its practices. Half its seats are held by top executives of investment banks and broker age firms — the very businesses the NYSE is supposed to monitor and regulate for fraud. The Securities and Exchange Commission, which oversees the NYSE’s regulatory functions, has suggested there could be big changes ahead. The exchange is expected to release a corporate governance plan on Oct. 2 that will, among other things, address compensa tion for future CEOs and potential changes in the board’s structure and the ownership of the exchange. Reed said improving the exchange’s gover nance was a priority, but offered few specifics. He said smaller boards of directors of 10 to 12 people were generally easier to work with, but did not indicate whether he would seek to trim the 27-seat NYSE board. Reed worked at Citi for more than 35 years before retiring in April 2000. He had been named CEO of Citicorp in 1984, and has been credited with building Citicorp into a corporate powerhouse through the 1990s, developing its technology infrastructure, slashing staff and selling off unprofitable assets. Reed has only been inside the NYSE once, and has never sat on an NYSE com mittee — a fact observers said was key because of the pressure on the exchange to clean house. “They clearly wanted someone who’s an outsider, but who’s knowledgeable,” said Steven Kaplan, a finance professor at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business Since his retirement, Reed said he has been teaching and writing. He said he is stepping down as lead director of the board of Altria Group, the parent company of tobacco giant Philip Morris, because of his new job. 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