Senior Iraqi Official Killed in Baghdad, Radical Cleric Offers to Support New Government

Charleston Daily Mail › June 14, 2004

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen killed a deputy foreign minister as he went to work today, the latest attack on Iraqi leaders in recent weeks. A radical cleric whose uprising killed hundreds pledged to support the new government if it works to end the U.S. military occupation.

Bassam Salih Kubba, Iraq's most senior career diplomat, was mortally wounded in Baghdad's Azimiyah district, Foreign Ministry spokesman Thamir al-Adhami said. The attack took place in a Sunni Muslim neighborhood where support for Saddam Hussein was strong.

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Senior Iraqi Official Killed in Baghdad, Radical Cleric Offers to Support New Government

The attack was the second assassination of a senior Iraqi figure in the past month. The head of the now-disb...

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