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Kirkuk: Suicide bomber targets Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP)
7.11.2007
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November
7, 2007
Kirkuk,
Iraq's border with Kurdistan region, -- At
least 17 people were injured Wednesday by a suicide
bomber who targeted the headquarters of a Kurdish
KDP political party in Kirkuk city.
Kirkuk Police Chief Sarhad Qader told Kuwait's KUNA
new agency the bomber detonated his device near the
headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
"A suicide bomber blew up a car rigged with
explosives on Wednesday afternoon targeting the
headquarters of the KDP, led by Kurdistan President
Massoud Barzani," the source said.
"The attack, that took place in al-Askari
neighborhood in southern Kirkuk, injured 12 people,
including a number of the KDP members," he added.
"It also set six nearby vehicles ablaze," the source
also said.
Casualties from the suicide bombing that ripped
through the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic
Party (KDP) in southern Kirkuk reached 17 wounded, a
medic from Kirkuk Hospital said on Wednesday.
"Kirkuk Hospital received 17 wounded, all of whom
except for one are in stable condition," the medic,
who preferred to remain unnamed, said.
A local police source report earlier that at least
12 individuals were injured in the attack based on
an initial count.
Kirkuk city is a
Kurdish city and it lies just
south border of the Kurdistan autonomous region and
it is not under the full control of Kurdistan
Regional Government administration, the population
is a mix of majority Kurds and minority of Arabs,
Christians and
Turkmen. lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad.
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The former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein forced
over 250,000 Kurdish residents to give up their
homes to Arabs in the 1970s, to "Arabize" the city
and the region's oil industry.
Based on Iraq's Constitution 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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