Attackers kill Education Ministry official, coffin carried

(13 Jun 2004) 1. Exterior gates of senior Iraqi Education Ministry official Kamal al-Jarah's home 2. Bloodstain on ground 3. Finger pointing to blood 4. Spent bullet on ground 5. Man opening gate 6. Bullet holes in door of al-Jarah's house 7. Close-up of bullet hole on house 8. Various of bullet holes in house 9. Family outside of al-Jarah's house 10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amal Aurfali, Kamal al-Jarah's cousin: ''While he (Kamal al-Jarah) was leaving for his office at 7:20 am (0320 GMT), three masked men ambushed him and broke into the house, he apparently wanted to get rid of them. Two of them started firing randomly, while the third shot him dead and even his blood is still on the ground in the garden.'' 11. Smashed rear window of al-Jarah's car 12. Flattened tire on car 13. Cracked window of car 14. Tilt down from sign reading "Ministry of Education" to mourners carrying coffin on shoulders leaving ministry 15. Mourners carrying coffin draped in Iraqi flag through streets 16. Mourners 17. Mourners carrying coffin through streets 18. Mourners with coffin 19. Exterior of Iraqi Ministry of Education with mourners STORYLINE: Gunmen have killed a senior Iraqi Education Ministry official in Baghdad in the second assassination of a government figure in as many days. Kamal al-Jarah, 63, an Education Ministry official in charge of contacts with foreign countries and the United Nations, was killed outside his home in the capital's Ghazaliya district, a predominantly Sunni Muslim neighbourhood where support for Saddam Hussein's regime had been strong. Bullet holes mark his house and car where the assassination took place on Sunday. Al-Jarah died of his wounds at the Yarmouk Hospital. A throng of colleagues and friends paraded his coffin, draped in the Iraqi flag, into the Iraqi Education Ministry for a fond farewell. On Saturday, an Iraqi deputy foreign minister, Bassam Salih Kubba, was mortally wounded as he was driving to work. The Foreign Ministry said the attack "bears all the hallmarks of leftover supporters of Saddam Hussein's evil regime". Kubba was the second senior Iraqi figure to be killed in the last three weeks and the first since UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi appointed the new leadership to take power in less than three weeks. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...