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Two Kurdistan Olympic Committee Members
among Kirkuk Explosion Victims
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July
17, 2007
Kirkuk, Kurdistan region border with (Iraq),
-- The head of Kirkuk branch of the Iraqi Olympic
Committee, Nazim Sheikh Jabar Harbi, exclusively
told PUKmedia on Monday that the terrorist
explosion in front of Kirkuk
branch of the Iraqi Olympic Committee
two members of the office were martyred.
One of the victims was Ali Abd al-Majid Mohamed,
Iraqi and Kurdistans’ first grade referee and
executive director of the office, and the other was
Nawzad Fary, the office’s guard, he further
clarified.
PUKmedia com
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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
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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