Apparently one of the members of the Chalabi Governing Council, who coincidentally was a woman was shot by (reportedly) six males in a pickup truck. Now it would be interesting to know if they were shooting at her for her gender and the perceived power she'll have as a council member, or simply because of her gender and the prevalent Islamic Fundamentalist view of women and their place in society.

Six gunmen firing assault weapons from a Toyota pickup truck chased a member of Iraq’s Governing Council in her car and seriously wounded her in the first assassination attempt targeting the U.S.-created leadership body. The brazen, daytime attack was against Aquila al-Hashimi, one of three women on the council, a Shiite Muslim and a strong candidate to become Iraq’s representative at the United Nations.
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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 ministers will not be intimidated by the terrorists,” Chalabi said in a statement. “They will continue to do their patriotic duty to move Iraq towards freedom, democracy and sovereignty.” He said al-Hashimi had received threats recently.

Humpf. It seems that having a criminal record, or even being close to indictment is a pretty good recommendation for employment by the 1600 Crew. Chalabi, I believe has been convicted in at least one country and is probably "wanted" in more...so hey, let's turn multi-billion dollar operation over to him. He was only convicted of: Embezzeling.