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To: steve harris who wrote (190330)6/12/2004 4:13:21 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1586876
 
Darn the bad luck!

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Iraqi deputy FM assassinated

www.chinaview.cn 2004-06-12 14:30:14

File Photo of the assassinated Iraqi Deputy FM Gassan Kuba(R)(Xinhua/AFP)

BAGHDAD, June 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq's interim Deputy Foreign Minister Gassan Kuba was assassinated in Baghdad on Saturday, al-Jazeera television reported.

Kuba was assassinated in Al-Adhamiya district in Baghdad, a Sunni Muslim neighborhood where support for Saddam Hussein's regime had been strong.

Attackers fired at the car of top civil servant in the ministry as he was on his way to work and fatally wounded him.

Kuba died of his wounds in the hospital at about 8.30 a.m. (0430GMT). End item

news.xinhuanet.com



To: steve harris who wrote (190330)6/12/2004 4:15:31 AM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1586876
 
More bad luck! It doesn't look like it will ever stop!

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Rebels strike Iraq police again

Station is 4th to be attacked this week
June 12, 2004

FREE PRESS NEWS SERVICES

YUSUFIYAH, Iraq -- Gunmen stormed a police station south of Baghdad, drove off the poorly armed police and blew up the building Friday. It was the fourth such attack against Iraqi security installations over the last week, officials said.

freep.com