File photo taken on May 10, 2004 shows Bassam Kubba (3rd L) accompanying Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (2nd L) during an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo, Egypt. Kubba, Iraqi deputy foreign minister, was shot dead June 12, 2004 on his way to work in the al-Adhamiya neighborhood in Baghdad, an Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Kubba was the first Iraqi government official assassinated since the founding of the Iraqi interim government June 1.

File photo taken on May 10, 2004 shows Bassam Kubba (3rd L) accompanying Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (2nd L) during an Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo, Egypt. Kubba, Iraqi deputy foreign minister, was shot dead June 12, 2004 on his way to work in the al-Adhamiya neighborhood in Baghdad, an Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Kubba was the first Iraqi government official assassinated since the founding of the Iraqi interim government June 1.