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Car bomb kills 2 Kurdish security agents
in Kirkuk city
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June
17, 2007
Kirkuk, Kurdistan region border with (Iraq),
-- A car bomb killed two Kurdish security agents
Sunday morning in Iraq's oil-rich Kurdish northern
city of Kirkuk, police said.
The men were traveling in a civilian car through
downtown Kirkuk when a parked car bomb exploded next
to their vehicle, said police Brig. Sarhat Qadir.
Three pedestrians were injured, he said.
Kirkuk, an ethnically mixed city, lies just
south border of the Kurdistan autonomous region, 290
kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad.
AP
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Kirkuk city is a Kurdistani 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, its population
is a mix of majority Kurds and minority of Arabs,
Turkmen.
The former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein 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.
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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