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| Bombings Targeting Kurds Kill 17 in Iraq | |
| 2014-06-09 | |
| [AnNahar] A boom-mobile followed by a suicide kaboom hit offices of a Kurdish political party and security forces in Iraq on Sunday, killing 17 people, police and a doctor said. The blasts in the town of Jalawla, north of Storied Baghdad, also maimed 50 people, the sources said. Police Captain Farhad Rifat said the boom-mobile went off close to an office of President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party and a Kurdish asayesh security forces building. As emergency workers came to the scene, the jacket wallah entered the PUK office and detonated explosives, he said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, though suicide kabooms are a tactic mainly employed by Sunni Mohammedan hard boyz in Iraq. Violence is running at its highest levels since 2006-2007, when tens of thousands were killed in sectarian conflict between Iraq's Shiite majority and Sunni Arab minority. More than 900 people were killed last month, according to figures separately compiled by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... and the government. So far this year, more than 4,500 people have been killed, according to AFP figures. Officials blame external factors for the rising bloodshed, particularly the civil war in neighboring Syria. But analysts say widespread Sunni Arab anger with the Shiite-led government has also been a major factor.
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