http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,218475,00.htmlBAGHDAD - Ms Safia Al-Souhail's father, an exiled opposition leader, was killed in Beirut in 1994 by Iraqi agents posing as diplomats.
Today, she is a leading candidate to fill the slot left vacant when Ms Aquila Al-Hashemi, one of only three women members of the Iraqi Governing Council, was assassinated.
As the daughter of a powerful tribal sheikh and a long-time human rights activist, Ms Souhail, 38, is an increasingly influential voice in Iraqi politics.
Her father, Sheikh Taleb Al-Souhail Al-Tamimi, led a million-member central Iraqi tribe called the Bani Tamim.
When he died, she inherited the tribe's political leadership.
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