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Baghdad (CNN) -- Iraq's Judicial Committee issued an arrest warrant Monday for Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who is accused of orchestrating bombing attacks. The warrant was issued under "Article 4," which is terrorism. The Interior Ministry, at a news conference, showed what it called confession videos from people identified as security guards for al-Hashimi, the country's Sunni vice president. In the videos, the men described various occasions in which they purportedly carried out attacks under direct orders from al-Hashimi. One man said he carried out assassination attempts using roadside bombs and guns with silencers. He said the orders came from...

Iraq's vice president has asked President Bush for a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq, the Iraqi president's office said. Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni, made the request during his meeting with Bush on Tuesday, when the U.S. president made a surprise visit to Iraq. "I supported him in this," President Jalal Talabani said in a statement released Wednesday. Al-Hashimi's representatives could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday. Bush made it clear during his visit that the U.S. military presence — now at about 132,000 troops — would continue, though he stressed the fate of...

Gunmen Kill Sister of Iraq's Sunni VP Thursday , April 27, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq — A sister of Iraq's new Sunni Arab vice president was killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad on Thursday, police said. She died one day after her brother called for the Sunni-dominated insurgency to be crushed by force. In southern Iraq, a bomb hit an Italian military convoy at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, killing three soldiers -- two Italians and a Romanian -- and seriously injuring another passenger, Italy's government said. The explosion near an Italian military base was caused by a roadside bomb that hit...

Escape from Chelmby Daniel Sargis05 May 2004Appointing a former member of the Republican Guard to a command position in Fallujah is like smothering a fire with more logs.    The good news is that Thomas Hamill, the American civilian held hostage in Iraq since April 9, has escaped.  In spite of the best efforts of terrorists and liberals alike, Hamill did something very American...with faith in God, he took responsibility for himself.  Hamill saw his opportunity; kicked open a door; and ran into the open arms of an American patrol.  The bad news?  The town of Chelm still flourishes...

SADDAM JUDGE MURDERED The judge heading judicial committees to investigate former officials of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime in Najaf has been shot dead, it is reported. Muhan Jabr al-Shuwaili, who chairs the Najaf Tribunal and the investigative committees, was kidnapped along with Najaf prosecutor General Aref Aziz, from the judge's house in the city on Monday, the AFP agency quoted Mr Aziz as saying. The two were taken in cars to a desert area five miles from Baghdad and the judge executed, he said. "One of the assailants said 'Saddam has ordered your prosecution.' Then they fired two shots into...

<p>BAGHDAD &#8212; Aquila al-Hashimi, a leading figure in Iraq's Governing Council, died yesterday of gunshot wounds suffered in an ambush last week, marking the first time Iraq's violence has claimed the life of a member of the U.S.-appointed administration.</p> <p>Mrs. al-Hashimi, shot outside her home, had been optimistic about her country's future although opposed to allowing foreigners to remain in charge on her native soil.</p>

The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 25 — Aquila al-Hashimi, a career diplomat, was the only member of Saddam Hussein's regime to be chosen by Iraq's American occupiers to sit on the interim Governing Council. Al-Hashimi died Thursday of gunshot wounds, five days after being ambushed by six men in a pickup truck near her home in western Baghdad. Widely expected to become Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, she was preparing to attend the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York. Her assassination was the latest in a series of assaults against Iraqis who have worked openly with the...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The health of Aquila al-Hashimi, one of three women on Iraq's Governing Council, has taken a turn for the worse, four days after she was shot in a brazen daylight assassination attempt, a spokesman for the Iraqi Governing Council said Wednesday. ``Her health situation has deteriorated dramatically,'' said Entifadh Qanbar, spokesman for current council President Ahmad Chalabi. ``Doctors are trying their best. We wish her a speedy recovery.'' Al-Hashimi is being treated at a U.S. military hospital in the compound at Saddam Hussein's former Republican Palace in central Baghdad where the U.S.-led coalition had its...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Aquila al-Hashimi, a member of Iraq's Governing Council, was shot and critically wounded Saturday in an assassination attempt outside her home in western Baghdad, police and doctors said. Al-Hashimi was in critical condition with abdominal wounds, a doctor at al-Yarmouk hospital said on condition of anonymity. After surgery she was moved to an unspecified location in a convoy of American armored vehicles and military ambulances. Three of her bodyguards also were injured, said Mohammed Abdul Ghany, a security official at the al-Yarmouk hospital. Members of al-Hashimi's security detail said the attack was carried out by men...