Silva Shahakian

Silva Shahakian, an Iraqi Armenian, [cite web|url=http://www.pageant.com/news/archive/news2006q2.html|accessdate=April 11|accessyear=2007|publisher=Pageant News Bureau, Inc.|title=Pageant News Bureau News archive: April - June 2006] was crowned Miss Iraq on April 10, 2006. She received the crown because the initial winner, Tamar Goregian (another Armenian) feared retribution from militants. [cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-04-12-missiraq_x.htm|accessdate=2007-04-11|title=Iraq's beauty queen fears for life after threats to pageant|publisher=USA Today, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.|work=USA Today|author=]

She plans to attend the 2006 Miss Universe pageant, being held in Los Angeles on July 23.

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*"This chance does not come to every girl. So, I'm lucky to have that. I'm not going to lose it,"

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* [http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1808182]
* [http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1825659]