Armed men assassinated Wednesday an official of the Iraqi Culture Ministry's tourist institution, said Iraqi police. The police told KUNA that gunmen assassinated Nabeel al Moussaoui by opening fire on him while he was driving his car heading to his work at Baghdad museum. The assault also killed the driver of Moussaoui, who used to be the manager of one of the most important museums here. In another incident, gunmen opened fire on cars of guards of the Financial Resources Minister Abdullatif Rasheed. The assault caused no injuries.In the meantime, the Iraqi authorities destroyed a memorial built in the capital accusing Iran of torturing Iraqi prisoners during the eight years of the Iraqi-Iranian war that had erupted in 1980. A statement by the Higher National De-Baathification Commission, which supervised the memorial elimination process, said that the memorial represented a lie created by the ousted regime to justify the war. "It represented the regime's ideology and political aims," said the statement.