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Kirkuk governor survives assassination
attempt 16.11.2006
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Kirkuk,
Kurdistan-Iraq, November 15, -- The Kirkuk governor
Abdul-Rahman Mustafa survived unhurt on Wednesday
afternoon an assassination attempt when an explosive
charge went off at his motorcade in the northern
Iraqi province of Kirkuk, a security source said.
Kirkuk governor “survived unhurt an assassination
attempt when an explosive charge went off at his
motorcade near the law faculty college, north of
Kirkuk,” the source said.
The attack resulted in no causalities, he added.
Meanwhile a traffic police officer was killed on
Wednesday by unidentified gunmen in city central
Kirkuk, a police source said.
"An armed group opened fire on Wednesday 10:00 am in
a drive-by assault at First Lieutenant Najdat Siddiq
near al-Itarat commercial complex, 2 km south of
Kirkuk," the source said on condition of anonymity.
He added "police patrols rushed to the scene and
carried the officer to the public hospital of Kirkuk,
where he drew his last breath."
The source said “an explosive device went off on
Wednesday morning near a police vehicle patrol in
the area of al-Hissabat (4 km east of Kirkuk) but no
casualties were reported.”
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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