Saturday, June 12, 2004

New Iraq® official gunned down

Relatives said Bassam Salih Kubba had just left his home in the Adhamiya suburb north of Baghad when gunmen in a black Opal fired at the car. Kubba died on the way to the hospital. His driver also was injured.

Kubba, 60, was a deputy foreign minister in the new government but had worked at the ministry since 1968. He served as Saddam Hussein's ambassador to China and was once the chief Iraqi envoy to the United Nations. He was on the committee that ran the foreign ministry after the war last year.
  WaPo article