Gunmen assassinate Iraqi deputy foreign minister

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Jun 12, 2004 - Iraqi resistance fighters reportedly opened fire Saturday near a Baghdad mosque, killing Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Bassam Kuba. "We heard that assailants opened fire on Bassam while he was driving his car near Assaf mosque" in the Adhamiya neighborhood of Baghdad on Saturday, a spokesperson for the foreign ministry told Aljazeera. Kuba died of his injuries at Numan hospital in Baghdad. The 60 year-old was the ministry’s most senior diplomat, responsible for legal issues. He served as acting chief of the Iraqi mission to the United Nations and as Iraq’s ambassador to China. The attack on Kuba was the second made on members of the interim government in the past four days. Deputy Health Minister Ammar Al-Safar escaped an assassination attempt in the same neighborhood where Kuba was slain.