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Attack kills two in Kirkuk city 1.8.2006
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Kirkuk,
Kurdistan-Iraq, August 11, --A bomb near the
northern Iraq Kurdish city of Kirkuk has killed two
police officers and injured at least two others.
The roadside bomb exploded when a police patrol
passed on the outskirts of Hawijah, 45km (30miles)
west of Kirkuk.
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. 2007 referendum will decide whether
the oil-rich Kurdish province should be annexed to
the safe semiautonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq's
north.
UN to stay
In a separate development, the United Nations
Security Council announced it would be extending its
mission in Iraq for another year.
The current mandate of the 400-strong mission was
due to expire Friday.
The Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, had
earlier written to the UN Secretary General, Kofi
Annan, requesting the extension.
Mr Zebari said while the political transition had
come to an end, there was much work to be done to
rebuild Iraq "for the benefit of this and future
generations of Iraqis".
BBC
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