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Blast near the Kurdistan Democratic Party
headquarters in Mosul
23.2.2009
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February
23, 2009
MOSUL, Northwest Iraq,— A sticky improvised
explosive device attached to a civilian vehicle went
off near the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) local
committee headquarters in Mosul city on Monday, a
committee source said.
“The IED went off about 50 meters away from the KDP
local committee headquarters in al-Faisaliya
neighborhood, eastern Mosul, but left no
casualties,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
“The explosion caused damage to nearby stores,” the
source added.
The KDP is headed by Massoud Barzani,www.ekurd.netthe president of
autonomous Kurdistan region
in Iraq's north.
With a mixed population of Sunni Arabs and ethnic
Kurds, Mosul has long been a flashpoint of violence.
Nineveh province, is said to be one of the last
strongholds of al-Qaida fighters in the war-torn
country.
Mosul, capital city of Ninewa province in Iraq, near
the border with Kurdistan region, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. The Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds located
near Mosul. Some 350,000 Kurdish Yazidis live in villages
around Mosul near Kurdistan autonomous region
border.
Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution states that
there will be a referendum in the areas bordering
the Kurdistan autonomous region,www.ekurd.netincluding the
northern oil city of Kirkuk, so that people can
choose whether to be ruled by the central government
or the Kurds.
History of attacks on
Kurdistan democratic party (KDP) 2007-2009 by Islamic
terrorist groups:
February 23, 2009,
in Mosul, Blast near the Kurdistan Democratic Party
(KDP) headquarters.
January 27, 2009,
in Mosul, a suicide car bomb attack kills four near
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) office.
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.
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