Death Without the Pageantry or Heraldic Sound Track

From CNN:

An Iraqi deputy minister was gunned down today in a drive-by ambush in front of his Baghdad home. The murder of Bassam Salih Kubba, one of four deputy foreign ministers, comes less than a week after another deputy minister survived an attack at his home.

Also, in Saudi Arabia, another American has been shot dead.

Wouldn't you just love to have to raise your children there? That's a rhetorical question, btw.