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Political worker dies in Baghdad ambush
BAGHDAD, Iraq — On their first date, Michael Hastings and Andrea Parhamovich met for milkshakes.
Fifteen months later, she followed him to Iraq.
Hastings hoped they would spend their lives together.
But Wednesday, Parhamovich died in a hail of bullets — ambushed outside a Sunni Arab political office in Baghdad.
Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaida claimed responsibility Thursday for the attack that took the lives of the 28-year-old and three guards — a Hungarian, a Croat and an Iraqi.
Two other security workers were wounded.
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No names have been released.
"She was an idealist," Hastings said of Parhamovich, who grew up in Perry, Ohio. "She always believed that people were good. Certainly, those ideals were put to the test when she came to Iraq."
Parhamovich, known as "Andi," had followed both her heart and her ideals when she came to Baghdad.
Hastings, a reporter for Newsweek, was working in Iraq. Parhamovich was drawn to