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ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters)
- A truck bomb has exploded near the offices of a
major Kurdish party in the northwestern Iraqi town
of Sinjar, killing at least 15 people and wounding
30, the local mayor has said.
Dakheel Kassim Hassoun said the blast targeted the
offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Sinjar,
close to the Syrian border in northern Iraq.
The insurgent group led by al Qaeda's leader in
Iraq, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said
in an Internet statement that it had carried out the
attack.
"A lion from the martyrs' battalion attacked one of
the apostate strongholds on Wednesday in a truck
laden with explosives in Sinjar... which is
controlled by the apostate Kurdistan Democratic
Party, near the mayor's office," the Al Qaeda
Organisation of Holy War in Iraq said.
"This is the fate of every agent of the Jews and
crusaders," said the statement posted on an Islamist
Web site.
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