Car bomb kills five at Kurd party office in Iraq

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A suicide car bomber killed at least five people and wounded 28 more in an attack on an office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the northern city of Mosul on Monday, police and a Kurdish official said.

Police said the number of civilian casualties was four dead and 26 wounded.

Lieutenant Ahmed Zebari, a military officer with links to the KDP, said inside the office one more person was killed and another two wounded. They were taken to a different hospital.

The KDP is one of the two ruling parties in Kurdistan in northern Iraq. With a mixed population of Sunni Arabs and ethnic Kurds, Mosul has long been a flashpoint of violence.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PAR555525.htm

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1. No connection at all with the Kurds facing down the U.S. military at Irbil

last week?

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2. Bombings, shootings kill at least 16 across Iraq

A suicide car bomber slammed into an Iraqi army patrol in the northern city of Mosul on Monday, killing seven people and wounding 28 others, police said.

At least 16 people were killed in bombings and shootings across Iraq on Monday, mostly outside Baghdad. The violence came as Iraqi and American forces prepared a new military offensive to pacify the Iraqi capital by cleansing it of militiamen and other sectarian killers that threaten to divide the country.

The biggest bombing occurred during evening rush hour in the al-Arabi neighborhood of Mosul, some 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. Two Iraqi soldiers were among the dead, and some houses and shops were damaged by the blast, said Ninevah police Brig. Abdul Karim al-Jubouri.

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Also in Mosul, two gasoline black market vendors were killed in a drive-by shooting, another police official said. The attackers tossed a leaflet saying they would punish anyone selling fuel on the black market, the official said on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16636428/

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3. At least 55 Iraqis die in attacks or found dead

Baghdad, Jan 16: ... At least 55 people were killed in bombings and shootings or were found dead yesterday, and most of the attacks were outside Baghdad. The violence came as Iraqi and American forces prepared a new military offensive to pacify the Iraqi capital by cleansing it of militiamen and other sectarian killers that threaten to divide the country ... Also in Mosul, two gasoline black market vendors were killed in a drive-by shooting, another police official said. The attackers tossed a leaflet saying they would punish anyone selling fuel on the black market, the official said on condition of anonymity because of security concerns ... Besides 25 people killed in violence yesterday, police said 30 bodies were found across the Iraqi capital, most with signs of torture. http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=348109&sid=WOR