زوجة سلام باقر

From the news reports:

They had been married 30 years.

On Tuesday, they had traveled from Karbala, an hour to the south, to see if Mrs. Bakr could get back her teaching job. A former Baath Party member, she was fired last year as part of the purge of Baathists, but under new rules, she was allowed to reapply.

NYT 15 Jul 2004