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 | | Kirkuk is also the center of the Iraqi petroleum industry and thus strategically and economically important to the Iraqi state. | | | Kirkuk is the center of Iraq's oil industry and is connected by pipelines to ports on the Mediterranean Sea. | | | The US policy on the status of Kirkuk is that efforts to remedy the unjust policies of the Saddam government in and around Kirkuk, which included the forced deportation of residents, confiscation of property and the manipulation of administrative boundaries, are internal issues for Iraqis to decide. |
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| | The Kurds' numbers, and their determination to lay claim to Kirkuk, have stoked the already intense hostilities between the Kurds and Arabs that date to the late 1980's, when Saddam Hussein pushed many Kurds out of the city and replaced them with Arabs. | | | Situated next to Iraq's northern oil fields, Kirkuk is a setting for all the ethnic-sectarian conflicts that are the historic reality of Iraq - Muslim against Christian, Sunni against Shiite, Kurd against Arab. | | | Their reason is emotional but also economic: Kirkuk is the key to oil fields that represent 40 percent of Iraq's proven petroleum reserves. |
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| | TIME.com: Why Turks and Kurds Prize Kirkuk -- Page 1 |
| | Kirkuk is claimed by some local Kurdish leaders as the "Kurdish Jerusalem," and viewed as the economic and political hub of any future Kurdish entity or state. | | | The Turks' primary concern is to counter the ambitions of Iraq's Kurdish nationalists — although the Kurdish parties that have governed the section of northern Iraq liberated from Baghdad in 1991 officially deny they plan to seek an independent state, that goal has long been an organizing principle of local Kurdish politics. | | | But Turkey views Kirkuk as the rightful property of Iraq's tiny Turkman minority, which has close ties to Ankara and whose historic conflict with the Kurds has at times erupted in bloodshed. |
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| | Kirkuk is an Iraqi city under the current control of the Iraqi government and one to which both Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds have arguable claim. | | | According to the Turks, Kirkuk was part of Turkey proper, but the two victorious European powers intentionally included Kirkuk in the newly-created Iraq in order to deny Turkey, a losing power of World Ware I, access to fuel to create a major handicap for its economy. | | | The existence in that city and its proximity of Turkmens, whom the Turks consider as their kin, has provided an ethnic ground for their claim. |
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| | The history and demography of Kirkuk were an affront to the fascist dreams of the Baath Arab Socialist Party. | | | Though Kirkuk’s property-claims statute was amended recently to allow Arabs displaced after the war to make claims as well, Shaker said that his children had been threatened by the peshmerga, and he was afraid to file for compensation. | | | Kurds in Kirkuk cast suspicion on Turkish intelligence agents; the Turkish government has repeatedly asserted that a Kurdish power grab in Kirkuk would be regarded as a prelude to an independent state and therefore a threat to Turkey, which has its own minority population of rebellious Kurds. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Below the surface in Kirkuk: Oil and tension |
| | Today, Kirkuk remains one of Iraq's most diverse cities: 35% Arab, 35% Kurdish, 26% Turkmen and 4% of other groups, according to a U.S. military survey conducted in October 2004. | | | Some Kurdish neighborhoods in Kirkuk were leveled, and the Iraqi government blocked the return of Kurds and other minorities to the city of Kirkuk, Human Rights Watch said. | | | The Kurds refused to support the new government without a guarantee that Kirkuk would be part of the semi-autonomous Kurdish north. |
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| | Kurds view Kirkuk as the ancient seat of Kurdistan and believe it should be the capital of their region in a newly formed Iraqi federation. | | | Today, Kirkuk is a tangle of ethnic grievances among its Arab, Kurdish and Turkoman residents. | | | "Kirkuk, underground, is full of oil," said Hasib Rozbayani, director of resettlement for Kurds returning to the city. |
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| | Ethnic Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens all claim a right to govern this oil-rich city, and many Arabs and Turkmens believe that if the Kurds prevail, the city will be subsumed in the semiautonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq that has been outside the control of the Iraqi central government since 1991. | | | With the approach of the elections, tens of thousands of Kurds who were driven out of Kirkuk when former president Saddam Hussein held power have returned to vote, angering Arabs and Turkmens who say the balloting is being skewed against them. | | | Even if they do not ultimately bring the city under their regional control, Kurdish leaders say they are adamant about bringing back Kurds who were driven from their homes and replaced with Arab settlers under the Arabization campaign pursued by Hussein and his ruling Baath Party. |
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| | Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that Saddam Hussein "Arabized" through forced migration, is on the Iraqi side of the line separating the Kurdistan Regional Government from the rest of Iraq. | | | "Kirkuk is a historic issue for Kurdish leaders," says Hiwa Osman, a Kurdish political analyst. | | | Some hope to eventually return or to get money and land from Kurdish political parties; others see this as a way to move a large influential Sunni voting block to Kirkuk, a symbol for Kurds who were brutally expelled from this city by Saddam Hussein decades ago. |
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| | Kirkuk: Iraq's northern tinderbox csmonitor.com |
| | These Iraqi Kurds are among the latest to be forced from the northern oil city of Kirkuk, as part of Saddam Hussein's long-standing "Arabization" campaign. | | | But it's the determination of Kurdish families - some 100,000 ethnic Kurds and Turkmen were expelled from Kirkuk during the past three decades - that is expected to present a key challenge to any American occupation of Iraq. | | | Preserving official documents in Kirkuk - from birth and land ownership records, to lists of who was forced out and who was moved in - will be key to preventing future headaches. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Kurdish fighters take Kirkuk |
| | Kirkuk, although pre-dominantly a Kurdish city, has a large Turkish-speaking minority, and any Kurdish move on it would provoke a wrathful response from Turkey. | | | · Kirkuk was once a largely Kurdish city but Kurds accuse the government of Saddam Hussein of deliberately diluting the Kurdish proportion of the population by driving them out and bringing in Arabs. | | | Earlier, the Americans had given stern warnings to the Kurds that they should not try and seize Kirkuk, or any of the other strategic oil cities in northern Iraq. |
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| | KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) -- Gunmen have shot dead a former member of Kirkuk's city council, Iraqi police said on Saturday, the latest killing of a local official in a city where tensions between Kurds and Arabs run high. | | | Jibouri was said to have developed good ties with Kurdish officials on the council, which Kirkuk's deputy mayor suggested might have been a reason for the killing. | | | Over the past two years, more than a dozen local leaders -- including Kurds, Arabs and Turkish-speaking Turkmen -- have been killed in Kirkuk, a city that draws wealth from huge nearby oil resources and which is claimed by all three groups. |
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| | Four killed, gas pipeline sabotaged in Iraq violence. 10/07/2004. ABC News Online |
| | Kirkuk, 255 kilometres north of Baghdad, has seen tension and violence among it's Arab, Kurd, Turkmen and Christian population. | | | In Kirkuk, unknown assailants opened fire at about 9:00 am local time at the offices of the predominantly Arab Union of Farming Cooperatives killing a guard, according to Iraqi police Major Burhan Taib. | | | Four Iraqis, including two alleged members of a gang, were killed today in different incidents, while insurgents again targeted a gas pipeline near the northern oil city of Kirkuk. |
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| | Sheikh Ghassan Muzhir Al-Asi, leader of the Arab Alliance in Kirkuk, states that "the Kurds have taken control of Kirkuk after the occupation. | | | Although other Kurdish leaders, such as Kamal Kirkukli of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan National Party, are adamant that a Kurdish Kirkuk "is immutable and irreversible", this view is contested by many non-Kurdish Iraqis. | | | His party has supervised referendum activities in Al- Sulaymanyia in the first few weeks of the occupation and his men have been Kurdicising Kirkuk with a zeal surpassing that with which Saddam's men once sought to Arabise it. |
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| | Kirkuk, a multiethnic city with a Kurdish, ethnic Turkish populations, Arab, Christian -- but Kurds have been the strongest group in the city since the fall of Saddam Hussein. | | | Kirkuk is also home to 12 percent of Iraq's oil reserves, and Turkey said the resources must be... | | | KIRKUK: A policeman was shot dead on Friday in Kirkuk, where the bullet-riddled body of a Kurdish peshmerga fighter was discovered, Iraqi police said. |
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| | The agreement also gives special attention to the future of Kirkuk, the self-described "city of brotherhood and friendship," which is home to ethnic Arabs, Kurds, Turkomans, Assyrian Christians and other groups -- as well as the lucrative oil fields that surround it. | | | And Kirkuk's Turkomans may not accept Kurdish domination -- an issue Phillips said would need to be solved by including protection for ethnic minorities in Iraq's constitution. | | | Ethnic Arabs in the city -- and some Turkomans -- complained bitterly that the Kurdish forces looted Kirkuk immediately after the war and flooded it with Kurds, displacing Arabs. |
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| | The rise of the Kurdish role in coalition operations prompted concern in neighboring Turkey, which fears the oil-rich city could be a start for an independent Kurdish state that would give rise to unrest among Turkey's own Kurdish population. | | | Turkish foreign ministry sources told CNN plans are being drawn up to send observers to Kirkuk, but it's unclear when or how many officials will be deployed. | | | The 173rd Airborne has more than 1,000 troops in northern Iraq, military sources told CNN, but not all have been sent to Kirkuk. |
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| | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) chief Jalal Talabani, the Kurdish candidate for president or prime minsiter of Iraq, has made the repatriation of Arabs from Kirkuk a non-negotiable point for a Kurdish-Shia governing coalition in Baghdad. | | | What about claims that Saddam killed or forcibly removed more than 100,000 Kurds from Kirkuk and replaced them with Arabs, I ask. | | | After that, the Sheikh says, the rest of his family was rounded up and put in prison. |
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| | November 22 - Abdel Salam Qanbar, an Iraqi police colonel in charge of security for oil installations in the northern city of Mosul was shot and killed by unknown attackers in a vehicle. | | | This is the first time an oil well has come under attack in Kirkuk." Amin said. | | | July 28 - premature explodulation killed two saboteurs who tried to place a bomb on an oil pipeline near Kirkuk. |
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| | Turks.US Daily News - Kirkuk: Bomb attack on Iraqi gas pipeline Daily News Turkey |
| | Attacks against oil and gas pipelines are frequent in the oil-rich Kirkuk district. | | | Since January 2005, more than twenty attacks have been carried out on the pipelines around Kirkuk, often bringing a halt to Iraq's stuttering oil industry's exports. | | | Turks.US Daily News - Kirkuk: Bomb attack on Iraqi gas pipeline |
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| | However, Hurriyet also reports on a conversation between the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Jalal Talabani, and Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, in which Mr Talabani reportedly said his peshmerga fighters would withdraw from Kirkuk. | | | But it says troops have been put on high alert. | | | Wenger ref comments studied by FA German hostage released in Iraq |
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| | KIRKUK, Iraq (AFX) - Oil exports from Iraq's northern fields were completely halted yesterday following a rebel attack on a major pipeline west of the oil centre of Kirkuk, an Iraqi oil industry official told Agence France-Presse. | | | Kirkuk oil exports halted after Iraq rebel attack - official - Forbes.com | | | Kirkuk oil exports halted after Iraq rebel attack - official |
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| | Claims in Conflict: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Iraq: VI. Reversing Arabization of Kirkuk |
| | Further violence erupted in Kirkuk on December 31, when several thousand Arabs and Turkomans demonstrated outside the PUK office in the city, shouting “No to federalism, Kirkuk is Iraqi.” | | | These anecdotal cases are supported by a May 2003 survey conducted by the U.N. Office for Project Services (UNOPS), interviewing 466 heads of households living in public buildings and transit camps in the north. | | | According to the New York Times: “The violence began three days ago, when Kurds harassed Arabs in an outdoor market and a bridge called Asho-Hada. |
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| | In northern Iraq, two Iraqis suspected of trying to bomb a pipeline in the country's oil-rich north and a Kirkuk policeman were killed Wednesday, police said. | | | "Two Iraqis wearing traditional Arab dress were killed as they tried to take a bomb out of their car and plant it near a pipeline just after 9:00 am (0500 GMT)," said Jawdat Abdullah, the top policeman in Al-Dibis, north of Kirkuk. | | | Bush to US public: We are winning war in Iraq |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Ethnic violence may explode in Kirkuk |
| | Over 30 years Saddam destroyed Kirkuk's ethnic bal ance to ensure Arab dominance - rather than Kurds, Turkomans or Assyrian Christians, who regard the city as part of their birthright - and to consolidate control over the region's oilfields. | | | It said that unless Iraq's interim government acted to resolve the disputes - the legacy of Saddam Hussein's programme of Arabisation - the region could be overwhelmed by a crisis. | | | The report urged the authorities to address the needs of the thousands of internally displaced Kurds and other non-Arabs around Kirkuk. |
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| | BAGHDAD (AP) — An Arab member of the Kirkuk city council was gunned down with his bodyguard as he drove to a meeting in the ethnically divided northern city Monday, the second Iraqi official in the region to be killed in two days. | | | Eleven Spaniards have died in Iraq since August, including seven intelligence agents killed in an ambush in late November. | | | In Kirkuk, Aggar Al-Taweel was shot several times in the head as he drove to the weekly meeting of the city council, said police chief Torhan Yussif. |
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| | The city of Kirkuk has been a target for Arabization policy, i. | | | This web site tries to gather all kind of information about the city of Kirkuk, situated i Iraqi Kurdistan. | | | The Displacement of the Population of the Kirkuk Region Especially by the Current Iraqi Regime |
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| | BAGHDAD, Aug 22 (KUNA) -- Three Iraqi policemen were injured Monday when a booby trapped vehicle exploded near their patrol in Kirkuk, police sources reported. | | | Car bomb injures three policemen, Ansar Al-Sunnah arrest reported in Kirkuk | | | The sources said, in press statements, that the car exploded upon the passing of the patrol in the Southern suburbs of Kirkuk, Northern Iraq. |
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| | Kirkuk is a key element in the coalition effort of the reconstruction of Iraq. | | | The mission of the 506th Air Expeditionary Group is to facilitate the reconstruction, operation and maintenance of Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and other USCENTCOM contingency plans. | | | The twelve members of this force were to bring state-of-the-art communications to this airbase held by the Iraqi government only weeks before. |
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| | In a third attack, a bomb exploded outside a dry cleaners used by US forces in Kirkuk, he said. | | | Bush to US public: We are winning war in Iraq | | | Kirkuk, 225 kilometres (140 miles) north of Baghdad, has become an active front in the war between the US military and insurgents since the start of the month, where violence previously had focused further south in the region around Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. |
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| | The Kirkuk Brotherhood list of the two main Kurdish parties -- the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party -- won 58.4 percent of votes, or 237,303 out of 405,951 ballots cast, the electoral commission said. | | | Thousands of Kurds displaced from the city by the former regime were allowed to return to vote on January 30. | | | President George W. Bush warned of more sacrifices in Iraq in 2006, but urged a divided US public not to give in to "defeatism" from critics of his strategy, declaring: "We are winning the war." |
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| | The area which includes the oil rich city of Kirkuk is the scene of frequent violence between the Kurds on one hand and the Turkmen and Arabs on the other. | | | KIRKUK, Iraq - At least one Iraqi soldier was killed and 10 people wounded on Thursday when a suicide car bomber blew himself up at an army checkpoint near a Shiite Muslim shrine in northern Iraq, police said. | | | Iraq’s majority Shiites, who have been the target of some of the deadliest attacks since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, on Thursday observe Arbaeen, the end of a 40-day mourning period for the killing of revered Imam Hussein almost 14 centuries ago. |
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| | The Kurdish Human Rights Project tracks the human rights situation in Kurdistan and reports abuses against both Kurds and non-Kurds. | | | It has recently written about the "breakdown in law and order" in cities such as Kirkuk, where looting and ethnic violence followed the arrival of U.S. and Kurdish forces. |
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| | They called it the most serious attack on the north's oil infrastructure since the US-led invasion of Iraq. | | | In particular, exports from the lucrative Kirkuk fields have been brought to a virtual standstill by insurgents for well over a year. | | | KIRKUK, Iraq: A huge fire blazed out of control on Iraq's vital northern pipeline to Turkey for a second day Friday, halting exports and forcing families to flee the area, said police and Iraqi oil officials. |
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| | Insurgent attacks kill two U.S. soldiers in western Iraq, two civilians in Baghdad |
| | Also Sunday, about 50 people, many of them Arab journalists, demonstrated in Baghdad to protest the shooting deaths, allegedly by American soldiers, of an Iraqi cameraman and correspondent from the Arab satellite television station Al-Arabiya. | | | Ethnic tensions sometimes erupt in Kirkuk as Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen compete for control of the city, located in one of the world's richest oil-producing regions. | | | Fallujah is in the so-called Sunni Triangle, an area where support for Saddam Hussein was strongest and scene of frequent rebel attacks on U.S. troops. |
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| | The bomb, which exploded late Wednesday, was placed beneath the aboveground pipeline, which connects the Bay Hassan oil fields with Kirkuk in northern Iraq, said police Brig. | | | BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb damaged an oil pipeline near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, sending plumes of black smoke and fire up into the air, officials said on Thursday. | | | Officials in Iraq’s Northern Oil Company said the heavily damaged pipeline would be repaired within five days. |
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| | Nine people were detained and brought to Kirkuk Air Base, including one with a rocket-propelled grenade, Minami said. | | | KIRKUK, Iraq &; A 21-year-old private from Schofield Barracks was shot in the arm and a 35-year-old staff sergeant received an eye injury in attacks in northern Iraq this week, officials said. | | | The men were captured with two AK-47 assault rifles, a rocket-propelled grenade, bomb-making material, and a shotgun, Minami said. |
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| | Torhan Abdul Rahman, Kirkuk's police chief, said three of the wounded Iraqis were children. | | | A suicide bomber has blown up his vehicle beside US soldiers keeping order at a mass protest in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. | | | He said parts of the suicide bomber's body had been found in the destroyed car. |
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| | K votes at his former primary school in Kirkuk | | | K talking to Sunni Arabs: they don't vote. | | | After 24 years exiled in the UK Karzan Sherabayani returns to his home town Kirkuk where he participates in the first democartic Iraqi elections |
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| | Kirkuk is the centre of northern Iraq's oil industry. | | | American soldiers in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk have broken into the vaults of a fire-gutted bank to release money to pay local oil workers. | | | Kirkuk's giant oil fields were damaged during the war |
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| | IRBIL, July 27 (KUNA) -- An Iraqi army soldier was killed and five others wounded in a blast in northern Iraq last night, a police source said Wednesday. | | | He told reporters the blast occured while the soldiers were dismantling a bomb placed on the Kirkuk-Irbil road in the northern city of Kirkuk. | | | The blast happened while Iraq is finalizing the draft constitution. |
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| | Hoshyar Darbandi made a quick trip to his hometown of Kirkuk this week to cast his vote. | | | Leaving his wife and kids behind in Stockholm, Sweden, he may have the honor of being the Kurd who came the farthest to make it to the polls. | | | Darbandi could have voted for the new Iraqi parliament from a safe distance in any number of European cities that allowed Iraqi exiles to vote, but he wanted to come home to vote in Sunday's local elections. |
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| | The organizations then informed registered families to come to the organizations headquarters in Kirkuk to receive their donated packages. | | | KIRKUK, Iraq – The Al Salama Organization, in coordination with Task Force Danger Soldiers provided humanitarian aid to families in Kirkuk on Jan. 4. | | | Al Salama Organization provides humanitarian assistance to Kirkuk Families |
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| | Turkey is very worried about the reports of the demographic manipulation,” Gül told the Turkish Daily News in an exclusive interview on his way to Poland, where, along with other foreign dignitaries, he will honor the victims of Auschwitz and commemorate the camp's liberat | | | Turkey doesn't want to be drawn into a conflict that could erupt over a boiling dispute regarding control of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, but nobody should expect Ankara to sit back and watch if developments there spill over, destabilizing neighboring Iraq, Foreign Min... | | | Turkish Daily News - Turkey won't sit back over Kirkuk spillover |
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| | Mou'ness Saeed, chief of al-Mouqdad police station in Kirkuk, was standing outside his car in southern Kirkuk with his guards late Thursday when gunmen opened fire from a vehicle driving by, Kirkuk police Chief Maj. Gen. | | | On Thursday, gunmen tried to assassinate another police chief. |
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