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| Iraq |
| Senior Arab politician gunned down in Iraq's Kirkuk |
| 2015-12-02 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The most senior Arab member of the Kirkuk provincial council was bumped off Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city, officials said, a killing likely to stoke tensions in the province. Gunmen sprayed Mohammed Khalil al-Juburi's car with bullets in central Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... the scenic provincial capital, killing him and wounding his wife, a police colonel said. Khalid al-Mufraji, a member of the Iraqi federal parliament, also confirmed Juburi's death and the wounding of his wife. Oil-rich Kirkuk is claimed by Iraq's three-province autonomous Kurdish region, which currently holds a large part of the province, and by the federal government in Baghdad. Federal forces were deployed in Kirkuk until June 2014, when they abandoned their positions when faced with an offensive by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadist group that overran large parts of the country. Kurdish forces have since battled the jihadists in Kirkuk, but IS still controls territory in the southwest of the province. |
| Posted by:Fred |