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Kurdish Peshmerga troops defused five
bombs in Kurdish Yazidis area in northwestern Iraq
21.8.2007
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August
21, 2007
Mosul, Iraq, --
, Kurdish Peshmerga
fighters (Kurdistan national guard) managed to
defuse five explosive charges on Monday in Sinjar
district, a Peshmerga official source said.
"Peshmerga fighters managed to defuse five bombs
planted on the main road, west of al-Kahtaniya
compound, in Sinjar district, at 7:00 pm on Monday,"
Major Omar Ramadan Kazo said.
A 340-strong Kurdish Peshmerga
force was sent to northwestern Iraq's
district of Sinjar to restore security and provide
protection to the afflicted community, an official
Peshmerga source said on Thursday.
Four truck bombs were detonated last Tuesday evening
in Kahtaniya area, 35 km south of Sinjar, and at al-Jazeera
housing compound, leaving
more than 800 casualties.
In the aftermath of the attacks, Iraq's Kurdistan
President
Massoud Barzani called on
Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi
Ministry of Interior to provide protection for
Kurdish minorities and accused a number of countries
in the region of being behind the attacks The
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced last
Thursday a day of mourning for the victims of the
blasts.
Sinjar, 120 km northwest of Mosul, is inhabited by
Yazidis, a religious minority whose followers are
generally situated in northern Iraq. Some 350,000
Yazidis live in villages around Mosul, 405 km north
of Baghdad.
VOI
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