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CShine

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Sun Jun-13-04 03:42 PM
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Top Iraqi diplomat assassinated

Gunmen killed a top Iraqi diplomat yesterday in the first high-profile assassination in the country since an interim government took over on 1 June.

Bassam Qubba, the foreign ministry's director-general, was murdered on his way to work from his home in Baghdad's mainly Sunni Muslim Adhamiya district.

The attack was the second on members of the interim government in four days. On Wednesday, deputy health minister Ammar Safar escaped an attempt on his life while he was on his way to the health ministry.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1237702,00.html

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Fear

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Sun Jun-13-04 03:48 PM
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1. and most likely more will come.

it's ironic, fighting a 'war on terrorism' - which can't exist cause there is no possibility that the 'enemy?' will surrender.

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LittleApple81

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Sun Jun-13-04 04:03 PM
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2. I am losing count. Is this the third "important" Iraqi killed in the last

two days?

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Alpharetta

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Sun Jun-13-04 04:08 PM
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3. you'd think there was a war going on

I sure hope there's no major combat. Bush said there'd be no more of that.

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Sun Jun-13-04 04:15 PM
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4. Duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=618813

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