Layla Al-Attar
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Layla Al-Attar was an Iraq
i artist and painter that graduated from the Academy of fine Arts in Baghdad. Layla, known for her beauty and kindness, had once held five one-women shows in Iraq and took part in all national and other collective exhibitions held in the country and abroad.
Layla also took part in Kuwait Biennil (1973), the first Arab biennil (Baghdad 1974), 2nd Arab biennil (1976), Kuwait Biennil (1981) and won the Golden Sail Medal in Cairo Biennia (1984). She was director of the Iraqi National Art Museum.
On June 27, 1993, Layla along with her husband and housekeeper were killed by a U.S. missile attack on Baghdad which was ordered by U.S. President Bill Clinton
in retaliation for an assassination attempt by the Iraqi Intelligence Service
on former U.S. President George H. W. Bush
during his visit to Kuwait in April 13, 1993. Layla's house was next to a mukhabarat, Iraqi Intelligence Service(IIS) compound. The attack also blinded her daughter.
Kris Kristofferson
dedicated and wrote a song about Layla named The Circle
.
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i artist and painter that graduated from the Academy of fine Arts in Baghdad. Layla, known for her beauty and kindness, had once held five one-women shows in Iraq and took part in all national and other collective exhibitions held in the country and abroad.
Layla also took part in Kuwait Biennil (1973), the first Arab biennil (Baghdad 1974), 2nd Arab biennil (1976), Kuwait Biennil (1981) and won the Golden Sail Medal in Cairo Biennia (1984). She was director of the Iraqi National Art Museum.
On June 27, 1993, Layla along with her husband and housekeeper were killed by a U.S. missile attack on Baghdad which was ordered by U.S. President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
in retaliation for an assassination attempt by the Iraqi Intelligence Service
Iraqi Intelligence Service
The Iraqi Intelligence Service , also known as the Mukhabarat, General Directorate of Intelligence, or Party Intelligence, was the main state intelligence organization in Iraq under Saddam Hussein...
on former U.S. President George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
during his visit to Kuwait in April 13, 1993. Layla's house was next to a mukhabarat, Iraqi Intelligence Service(IIS) compound. The attack also blinded her daughter.
Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...
dedicated and wrote a song about Layla named The Circle
The Circle
The Circle is a peer-to-peer distributed file system written mainly in Python. It is based on the Chord distributed hash table .Development on the Circle has ceased in 2004.-Features:...
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