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Nine gunmen killed, oil facility attacked
near Kirkuk 8.11.2006
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Kirkuk,
Kurdistan-Iraq, November 8, -– Nine gunmen were
killed and two soldiers were wounded in clashes near
Kirkuk city while seven mortar rounds fell on an oil
facility wounding three policemen in a separate
attack west of Kirkuk, a police source said on
Wednesday.
"A U.S. and Iraqi forces combined vehicle patrol
clashed last night with unknown gunmen after the
patrol came under small-arm fire,” the source who
declined to be named said.
The 30-minutes-long clashes left nine gunmen dead
and two soldiers wounded, he added.
"One wounded soldier was from the Multi-National
forces" the source said.
In a separate incident, seven mortar shells fell
Wednesday dawn on an oil facility west of Kirkuk,
the source said.
"Seven mortar rounds were fired at the oil facility
near Kirkuk-Riyadh road, west of Kirkuk, wounding
three facility protection policemen,” the source
added.
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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