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Kirkuk: Car bomb kills 8 in Kurdish market
10.8.2007
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August
10, 2007
Kirkuk, Kurdistan region border with (Iraq),
-- A car bomb killed 11 people and wounded 45 others
near a market in a Kurdish district of the northern
Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday, police said.
The car bomb, hidden in a parked car, hit a market
in a Kurdish area of Kirkuk, a disputed oil-rich
city lies just south border of the Kurdistan
autonomous region 180 miles north of Baghdad.
Police said the attack in Kirkuk's southern al-Hurriya
district destroyed several shops and damaged nearby
homes.
Doctors at the local hospital said many of the
wounded were in a serious condition.
Kurds see Kirkuk as their historical capital and
want it included in their autonomous Kurdistan
region. They want the referendum held by year-end,
as stated in the constitution.
Reuters | 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
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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