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06/13/2004:

"Iraqi minister, cleric assassinated"

Separate assassinations of a top Iraqi deputy and a Kurdish Sunni cleric, and the killing of three captives mark a bloody day in Iraq.

Bassam Kuba, Iraqi undersecretary of foreign affairs, was shot dead outside his Baghdad home on Saturday as he left for work.

Kuba had just returned from New York where he was part of an Iraqi mission to the United Nations.

He was the first national official to be assassinated since the country's new transitional government was unveiled less than two weeks ago. aljazeera.net