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Iraqi Minister shot dead

BAGHDAD, JUNE 12. Assailants killed an Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister today in an ambush as he was travelling to his Baghdad office, the Foreign Ministry said. Gunmen shot Bassam Salih Kubba in Azimiyah district, a Sunni Muslim neighbourhood where support for Saddam Hussein's regime had been strong. He died later of his wounds, said Thamir al-Adhami, the Foreign Ministry spokesman.

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