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Five Presidential guards killed, two
injured in southern Kirkuk 4.11.2006
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Kirkuk,
Kurdistan-Iraq, November 3, --- Five presidential
guards were killed and another two were injured as a
result of an explosion in southern Kirkuk northern
Iraq, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said
Friday.
The bomb was detonated when a Presidency Brigade's
vehicle was passing through al-Athiem area, which
resulted in the immediate killing of the guards, a
source at PUK told KUNA.
Al-Athiem area, located on the Baghdad-Kirkuk main
highway have been witnessing violent acts against
civilians, Iraqi and multi-national forces.
Violent actions have been taking place all over Iraq
since the country was liberated in 2003, killing and
wounding thousands of civilians and servicemen.
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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 is to be held in late 2007 to decide
whether the oil-rich Kurdish province should be
annexed to the safe semiautonomous Kurdistan region
in Iraq's north.
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