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Mosul: 12 Kurdish Peshmerga guards were
killed in a car bomb strike
15.4.2008
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April
15, 2008
Ninewa, Northwest Iraq, --12 members of the
Kurdish Peshmerga guards were killed in a car bomb
explosion, the fifth of its type, in the volatile
northern province of Ninewa on Monday, a police
source said.
“A car bomb went off against a carrier vehicle of
Kurdistan region Peshmerga guards,
near the border town of Rabia, west Mosul, leaving
12 Peshmerga guards killed and two others wounded,”
a Ninewa police source, who requested anonymity,
told VOI.
Rabia border town is the main gateway to the Iraqi
northern province and Kurdistan region to Syria. It
is also a town linking between Arab- predominated
villages and the self-autonomous Kurdistan region.
Earlier, Ninewa has seen a spate of four car bombs,
leaving over five civilians killed and 37 others
wounded according to security and medic sources.
Mosul, capital city of Ninewa province in Iraq,www.ekurd.net
near the border with
Kurdistan region, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. A
Kurdish Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds located
near Mosul. Some 350,000 Yazidis live in villages
around Mosul near Kurdistan autonomous region
border.
In August 2007,
four suicide truck bombs
detonated simultaneously in the small village of
Qahataniya in
northwest Iraq outside
Kurdistan region,
near the Iraqi border
Kurdish town of Sinjar, killing more than 500
Yazidis, a devastating blow to a community of no
more than 500,000 people..
In the immediate aftermath of the bombings,
Kurdistan regional president
Massoud Barzani dispatched
a force of
400 Kurdish militia
(Kurdistan national forces),
known as peshmerga, to
Sinjar to protect the Yazidis — a provocative move
considering his official jurisdiction does not
extend to those lands.
Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution states that
there will be a referendum in the areas bordering
the Kurdistan autonomous region, including the
northern oil city of Kirkuk, so that people can
choose whether to be ruled by the central government
or the Kurds.
Kurdish Yazidis look to
Kurdistan region, the Kurdish Yazidis
are concentrated in key areas for the referendum,
including lands coveted by the Kurds north of Mosul
and around Sinjar on the Syrian border. The Kurds
see the referendum as a chance to right Saddam
Hussein's historic wrongs of forced population
transfer and Arabization. The Arabs see it as a
Kurdish land grab.
"We hope that the land now lived on by the Yazidis
will join the Kurdish area," the community's leader,www.ekurd.net
Amir Tahseen Beg, told the Associated Press from his
residence in Sheikhan. "This will depend on the
referendum, but our areas must return to the
original motherland."
Sinjar, 120 km northwest of Mosul, is inhabited by
Kurdish Yazidis.
History of attacks on
Kurdistan democratic party KDP in 2007-2008 by Islamic
terrorist groups:
April 14, 2008,
in Mosul, 12 Kurdish Peshmerga guards were killed in
a car bomb strike.
March, 16, 2008,
is Mosul a bomb attack targets Kurdish KDP party
office.
November 7, 2007
at least 17 people were injured Wednesday by a
suicide bomber who targeted the headquarters of a
Kurdish KDP political party in Kirkuk city.
October 10, 2007
in Mosul a suicide bombing targeted a Kurdistan
Democratic Party (KDP) office, left two dead and 16
wounded.
May 13, 2007 a
car bomb targets Kurdish party in Makhmour city
kills 50 people and wounded 115 in Kurdistan region
April 23, 2007
a car bomb near the offices of a Kurdish political
party in a mainly Christian village of northern Iraq
killed at least 10 people and wounded 20.
January 1, 2007
a suicide car bomber killed at least five people and
wounded 28 more in an attack on an office of the
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the northern
city of Mosul.
Information for this report was provided by, VOI,
AFP, AP, Agencies
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