Sept. 25, 2003 | BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Aquila al-Hashimi, one of three women on Iraq's American-picked Governing Council, died Thursday, five days after she was shot in an ambush. Earlier, a bomb exploded outside the hotel housing NBC staff, killing a Somali guard and injuring a Canadian sound engineer.

Meanwhile, a U.S. military investigation found no misconduct by U.S. soldiers who earlier this month killed eight Iraqi policemen and a Jordanian hospital guard near Fallujah, the U.S. commander in Iraq said Thursday.

"The initial findings are that the soldiers acted within the construct of the military's rules of engagement," Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez told reporters.

"The initial reports were clear. There was initial fire and it was a 30-second engagement. At the end of it, the policemen were dead," Sanchez said.