Reply #3: Producer Of 'Halloween' Movies Dies Of Bombing Injuries

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LOS ANGELES -- Moustapha Akkad, the Syrian-born Hollywood filmmaker behind the "Halloween" film franchise, died in a Jordanian hospital Friday of wounds suffered in this week's terror strikes on three hotels in Amman.

His 34-year-old daughter, Rima Akkad Monla, a USC graduate and former Brentwood resident, died immediately in Wednesday's bombings, for which al-Qaida in Iraq, the group led by the elusive Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility.

Some 60 people -- including two Americans and three suicide bombers -- were killed and more than 100 people were wounded in the attacks on the Grand Hyatt, Radisson SAS and Days Inn hotels in the Jordanian capital.

Rima Akkad Monla "was beautiful inside and out," her mother, Patricia Akkad of Brentwood, who was divorced from Moustapha Akkad, said. "She was everybody's favorite. She was so sweet and so good and so caring."

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