Iraqi president's wife narrowly escapes bomb attack

Iraq's first lady narrowly escaped death on May 4 from a bomb attack in downtown Baghdad that struck her motorcade, injuring four body guards. President Jalal Talabani's wife, Hiro Ibrahim Ahmed, was headed to the city's central National Theater to attend a cultural festival when her motorcade was hit in the Karrada district, according to the president's office. She was said to be unharmed. The president's office said: "One of the vehicles of Hiro Ibrahim's convoy hit an improvised explosive device in the road this morning. She was heading to the National Theater." Hiro Ibrahim is a daughter of Ibrahim Ahmed, one of the founders of the Kurdish Democratic Party, and married Talabani in 1970. She owns a media group and is a children's rights activist. Next to no other information or reports have been made available about this astounding incident.