Seventeen Kurdish militiamen killed in northern Iraq car bomb

[maddezmom]

SULEIMANIYAH, Iraq (AFP) - Seventeen Kurdish militiamen from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) were killed when a car bomb exploded targeting their convoy in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a PUK official told AFP.



"Seventeen peshmergas were killed and 40 more wounded when their convoy was attacked by a car bomb driven by a suicide bomber around 4:30 pm (1330 GMT) as they were traveling through the Karama neighborhood of Mosul," the local PUK chief Saad Pira said Saturday.

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"The attack occurred near the PUK headquarters in the Karama neighborhood," he said. "An Opel car slammed into the convoy and exploded against the minibuses, two of which were totally gutted by fire."


The Arab inhabitants of Mosul are hostile to the Kurdish presence in their city, 375 kilometres (235 miles) north of Baghdad. After the fall of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in 2003, Kurdish political parties set up offices there, guarded by peshmergas


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041204/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_blast_kurds&cid=1514&ncid=1480

[Cocoa]

1. once we pacify Mosul....

everything will be much better.

[maddezmom]

2. having the Kurds in Mosul is only intensifying the "civil war" conditions

:( What a f'ing mess.

[opihimoimoi]

3. a deadly mess caused by idiotic leadership based on GREED/EGO

[demgrrrll]

4. The little computer news blurb now says 56 wounded. What a mess.

I can't believe anyone voted for the master of disaster.

[War Pigs]

6. Damn you, we WILL be greeted as liberators once we kill all the

ungrateful ones. Only 25 million to go, then it's on to Iran. Onward, christian robots! I know this because Cheney said so.

[maddezmom]

5. Kurds - fly in the ointment

December 2004
The Decatur Daily - By Eric Fleischauer
U.S. plan in Iraq doesn’t address group’s concerns

U.S proposals for a unified Iraq can only lead to civil war, according to some members of the main ethnic group in North Iraq.

The U.S. blueprint for Iraq after Saddam Hussein describes a unified country, or a federalist Iraq with minimal autonomy for three different states: the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shiites. U.S. officials envision a strong federal government that mimics the power-sharing arrangement of the states and the federal government in the United States.

Some Kurds, who make up 20 percent of Iraq’s population, say they already have been oppressed by the Arabs controlling Iraq — and the Arabs controlling Turkey, Syria and Iran — for too long. Now is the time, they say, for an independent Iraqi Kurdistan.

Several Kurds, including Sabah Salih, who was raised in Irbil, Iraq, and is now a professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, said their people will participate in a new government only if it has the following:


much more: http://www.kurdmedia.com/reports.asp?id=2296