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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior official in Iraq's education ministry was shot and fatally wounded in Baghdad on Sunday in the second assassination of a top government official in as many days, a ministry official said. Kamal al-Jarrah, 63, director-general for cultural relations, was attacked by gunmen as he left his house in western Baghdad Sunday morning and died later in the city's Yarmuk Hospital, Abdul Khaliq al-Amiri, secretary to the education minister, told Reuters. Jarrah's wife, who was with him, was unhurt in the attack, Amiri said.

<p>January 6, 2004 -- MY flight was delayed for six hours last Wednesday, and I and several of my fellow passengers were glad: They're taking security seriously enough to inconvenience us.</p> <p>The need for this inconvenience was driven home to me recently in Sarasota, Fla., where I spoke with Mohammad Atta's doctor and the flight instructor of Ziyad Al-Jarrah, one of the hijackers of Flight 93.</p>

German investigators say they have evidence that Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks, and two accomplices trained at Qaeda camps in Afghanistan from late 1999 to early 2000. They have also established a clear link between Al Qaeda and a recent attack on a Tunisian synagogue, a top official said. The timing of the Afghanistan training, outlined yesterday by a senior investigator, provides the strongest evidence so far that plans for the attacks on the United States were worked out there. Less than six months after leaving Afghanistan, Mr. Atta and the other two men...