| A senior official at Iraq’s ministry of education has been shot dead outside his home in west Baghdad. Director of cultural relations Kamal al-Jarrah was gunned down as he left for work in the Ghazaliya district. The incident comes a day after interim deputy foreign minister Bassam Qubba was killed by gunmen in the capital. A few days earlier, deputy health minister Ammar Safar escaped an attempt on his life in the same district while he was on his way to the ministry. The BBC’s Barnaby Phillips in Baghdad says the message from the gunmen to anyone involved in the interim government is clear and chilling - that they are all targets and their lives are in danger. |