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Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for Kurdistan-Makhmour
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May 15, 2007
Erbil, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- An
Al-Qaeda front group on Monday claimed
responsibility for a
suicide bomb attack on local administrative
offices in Kurdistan (northern Iraq) the town of
Makhmur which killed 50 people.
The self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq claimed in
a statement posted on a website used by Islamist
militant groups that one of its fighters rammed an
explosives-laden lorry at the compound on Sunday.
Fifty people were killed, many of them Kurdish
officials, and 115 others were wounded in the
bombing which police said hit a compound housing
Makhmur's local administration and the offices of
two Kurdish political parties.
Kurdish parties and security forces have become a
target of choice for Sunni Arab extremists, who
accuse the minority population of collaborating with
the US forces fighting the country's insurgency.
AFP
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