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| Iraq |
| Iraqi Gunmen Shoot at Kurdish Officials |
| 2004-03-02 |
| Gunmen in northern Iraq opened fire on a convoy carrying senior Kurdish officials Tuesday, wounding three bodyguards. Officials of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan were leaving the city of Mosul in their cars when the gunmen attacked, said Mullah Bakhtiar, a spokesman for the PUK. Jalal Jawhar, head of the PUK’s office in Kirkuk, and Dana Ahmed Majid, director of security in the Sulaimaniyah, were in the convoy but were unhurt. Bodyguards did their job. Bakhtiar said he believed the attackers knew PUK officials were in the car they shot at, but they did not know the identities of those officials. Any PUK official will do. Northern Iraq has seen increasing tensions between Kurds and Arabs as the Kurds press their demands to maintain self-rule powers in a future government. Insurgents also have stepped up attacks on Iraqi policemen in the north. On Feb. 1, suicide bombers attacked offices of the PUK and the other main Kurdish party in the city of Irbil, killing 109 people. The boomers were most likely Ansar, car bombs are their weapon of choice. This could be your run-of-the-mill Saddam loyalist, or a turkomen supporter given the gun play. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 This is not a good time to be an Arab in Kurdistan. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-3-2 6:21:28 PM |