American Charity Worker Killed in Baghdad
January 18, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
An unidentified American woman who was in Iraq teaching a class on democracy for a Washington nonprofit organization was killed in Baghdad when men fired on the vehicle she was traveling in, reports The New York Times.
The shooting took place minutes after the woman had left the headquarters of a prominent Sunni political party, where she was teaching the class, the paper reports. It was her first visit to the party’s office as part of her work for the National Democratic Institute, a charity that has had programs in Iraq since 2003.
Three of the woman’s guards were also killed in the attack.
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