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At least 175 dead in Iraq bomb attack
At least 175 people have been killed in a series of suicide bomb attacks in northern Iraq, Iraq's military says.

The blasts apparently targeted a Kurdish religious minority, the Yazidi sect, near Mosul. At least four blasts hit areas which house the community.
That's an old religion, greatly predates Islam.
Courtesy of Michael J. Totten: "The Beginning of the Universe".
A Mosul police source told the BBC that there had been "large loss of life". Officials said at least one of the attacks near Mosul involved a fuel tanker. Up to 200 other people were hurt in the blasts, which destroyed or set fire to a number of buildings. The attacks are among the worst carried out in Iraq during the insurgency.

Tensions between the sect and local Muslims have grown since a Yazidi girl was reportedly stoned by her community in April for converting to Islam. Members of the Yazidi community worship an archangel, sometimes represented by a peacock figure. Some Christians and Muslims believe the angel they revere to be the devil.
Posted by: lotp 2007-08-15
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