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Iraqi Kurdish KDP party member Jalil
Kakayi escapes death
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August 4, 2007
Kirkuk, Kurdistan region border with (Iraq),
-- A member of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP)
escaped assassination Friday, while five brothers
were found dead near Kirkuk, northern Iraq.
An Iraqi police said that unknown militants had
planted an explosive device under the car of Jalil
Kakayi, one of the leading members of the KDP, lead
by the Kurdistan region president Massoud Barzani.
The bomb was detonated, but only material damage was
sustained, according to the source. The attack took
place near a gas station in Kirkuk.
Meanwhile, the same source said the bodies of five
brothers were found near the village of Hakam along
the Kirkuk-Rashad Road, southwest of the city.
The brothers, sons of Mahmoud Waka'a, were killed
while returning home from work. They were
accompanied by their five-year-old brother, who was
found alive near the bodies.
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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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