Islip Terrace native killed in Iraq

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Hushin, 34, an Islip Terrace native, was killed along with three others Monday when a suicide bomber rammed into her car as she drove home from Baghdad International Airport. Hushin had been in Baghdad for about a year, working under a contract for the United States Agency for International Development, providing economic advice to the new Iraqi government.

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Hushin was killed along with one of BearingPoint's United Kingdom-based subcontractors and two employees of Kroll Inc., a New York-based firm which was providing security for the company.

They were riding in a convoy and were hit in the late afternoon when a car bomb exploded at a checkpoint between Baghdad's protected Green Zone and the road to the airport.

"She was the first contractor in the company who was killed, so this was a real shock," said Hushin's friend Ken Dorph of Sag Harbor, who worked at McLean Va.-based BearingPoint with Hushin. The consulting firm offers business and technology help to government agencies, companies and other organizations, according to BearingPoint's Web site.

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