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Ansar al-Sunna claim responsibility for
Killing General Serhad in Kirkuk
31.10.2006
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Suicide Bombing Executed by
Ansar al-Sunna in a Police Administration Building
in Kirkuk Kills General Serhad, the Police Director,
and Others
Kirkuk, October 31, -- The Islamic terrorist
group Ansar al-Sunnah in Iraq issued a communiqué
yesterday, Monday, October 30, 2006, claiming
responsibility for a suicide operation targeting
General Serhad, the director of the police in the
jurisdiction of oil-rich Kurdish city of Kirkuk and
surrounding areas, at a police administration
building in Kirkuk.
The group states that they planned the general’s
assassination for approximately six months, citing
his “declared war” on the Mujahideen and serving the
Shi’ites and “Jewish supporters,” Kurdistan region
President Massoud Barzani and Iraqi President Jalal
al-Talabani, as cause.
He was first targeted by the group in a roadside
bombing operation between Kirkuk and Tikrit on
September 29, 2006, but he survived. The group
states: “We warned him that if he is not going to
repent we are going to be after him, but these kinds
of people do not repent”.
The group found that a suicide bombing would be the
only way to ensure General Serhad’s death so they
dispatched one of their members for the operation.
The bomber detonated his explosive belt at the
general’s office in a police administration
building, during a meeting.
The message indicates that those officers inside the
meeting and most of the people present in the
adjacent hall were killed.
Ansar al-Sunnah then addresses the “apostates,”
warning: “Repent to live in peace, you and your
people, and we will not touch any of you with harm;
otherwise, we still have many arrows which will not
miss you, Allah willing”.
According to media reports, the suicide bomber,
dressed in a police officer uniform, detonated his
explosives inside a police headquarters in Kirkuk
yesterday, killing two policemen and a
three-year-old girl, injuring nineteen people.
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The former Iraqi president forced about 250,000
Kurdish residents to give up their homes to Arabs in
the 1970s, to "Arabize" the city and the region's
oil industry.
Kirkuk city is not under the full control of
Kurdistan Regional Government administration.
A
referendum in 2007 will decide whether the oil-rich
Kurdish province should be annexed to the safe
semiautonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq's north.
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