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190785
Fri, 06/24/2011 - 01:40
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American national killed in Baghdad
Baghdad (NINA) – The US State Department announced the killing on Thursday, June 23, of an American national working with a company executing projects for the United States Agency for International Development in an armed attack in Baghdad.
In a statement to the press on Thursday, June 23, Spokesperson for the State Department, Victoria Nuland said, “The United States condemns a terrorist attack in Baghdad today that claimed the life of international development and finance expert Dr. Stephen Everhart and wounded three others. Dr. Everhart was an American citizen who was working in Iraq for an implementing partner of the United States Agency for International Development’s Mission in Iraq.”
It added, “He was killed while working on a project to introduce a new business curriculum to a Baghdad university in a program supported by the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education.”
Three other civilians are wounded in the attack.
In a statement to the press on Thursday, June 23, Spokesperson for the State Department, Victoria Nuland said, “The United States condemns a terrorist attack in Baghdad today that claimed the life of international development and finance expert Dr. Stephen Everhart and wounded three others. Dr. Everhart was an American citizen who was working in Iraq for an implementing partner of the United States Agency for International Development’s Mission in Iraq.”
It added, “He was killed while working on a project to introduce a new business curriculum to a Baghdad university in a program supported by the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education.”
Three other civilians are wounded in the attack.
