I think this might be the assassination they're talking about:
(snip)Gunmen killed a senior Iraqi Foreign Ministry official in the capital, said Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi.
He said four men pulled up outside a house in central Baghdad and tried to force Qusay Mehdi Saleh, who was Iraq's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates until a month ago, into their car. When he resisted, he was shot twice.
The Islamic Army in Iraq militant group claimed responsibility for the killing, Al Jazeera television reported.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=610609§ion=news
Could be confused reporting. But the first report had the individual as the ambassador to Abu Daubi and assassinated there. This is the UAE ambassador and killed in Bagdad. Probably the same event, will have to see if anything further comes out to clarify it.