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Iraqi insurgents murder four Kurdish
traffic cops in Kirkuk 27.8.2006
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KIRKUK,
Kurdistan-Iraq, Aug 27, 2006 , -- Iraqi insurgents
ambushed and killed four Kurdish traffic cops on
Sunday, including a young police academy graduate
who was travelling to meet his fiancee and arrange
their wedding.
"The policemen were travelling in a car when they
were stopped on the highway between Kirkuk and
Tikrit by unidentified gunmen. The four were shot
dead by the gunmen," said Captain Faras Mahmoud, a
police officer in Kirkuk.
Abdullah Khir Allah told AFP that his 21-year-old
son Mohammed had just qualified as a police officer
and was travelling south from the Kurdish town of
Erbil to the city of Samarra to see his future
bride.
Three of his colleagues were travelling with him as
escorts, but when they neared Tikrit -- which was
ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's hometown -- the
Kurdish Shiite officers were ambushed by suspected
Sunni Arab insurgents.
"We worked so hard to bring him up. His mother was
so busy with him until he went to the academy, and
he was to be married," Khir Allah said bitterly,
cursing the attackers and accusing US troops of
failing to provide security.
Kirkuk, an ethnically mixed town and a centre of the
Iraqi oil industry, has seen a number of insurgent
attacks in the past few months. Sunday's shooting
took place 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of the
city.
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.
AFP
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