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Truck bomb in northern Iraq kills 19
Wed Sep 9, 2009 10:42pm EDT
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By Jamal al-Badrani
MOSUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into a Kurdish village in north Iraq before dawn on Thursday, killing at least 19 villagers and wounding 25, Iraqi police said.
The blast in the village of Wardek, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, seemed calculated to fan ethnic tensions between Kurds and Arabs, whose politicians are embroiled in a bitter dispute over claims to territory and oil.
Women and children were among the dead and many houses were destroyed, police said.
Another truck bomber tried to set off a second blast in the village but local Kurdish Peshmerga forces opened fire and killed him before he reached its outskirts, Iraqi police said.
Wardek is 30 km (18 miles) east of the volatile northern city of Mosul, where al Qaeda and other Sunni Arab insurgent groups are making a last stand after being driven out of their former strongholds in Baghdad and western Iraq.
U.S. officials say insurgents are increasingly seeking ways to attack Kurds in ethnically mixed parts of northern Iraq in a bid to foment ethnic violence between them and Arabs at a time of rising tensions over land disputes.
Earlier, a car bomb killed eight members of a single Arab family and leveled at least one house in Kirkuk, the city at the heart of the row between Arabs and minority Kurds.
The blast occurred near the home of an Arab leader of a pro-government local militias known as 'Awakening' councils, in the east of the city. The militias, including many former insurgents who switched sides, are a favorite al Qaeda target.
Kirkuk, an oil hub, is 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad.
"IGNITE STRIFE"
Home to a volatile mix of ethnic Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen, northern Iraq is the battleground of a standoff between Baghdad's Arab-led government and leaders of the largely autonomous Kurdistan region, who claim Kirkuk and other bits of the north as their ancestral homeland.
Major-General Jamal Taher Bakr, Kirkuk's police chief, said a displaced family from Iraq's Diyala province further south had been taking refugee in the house when it was hit.
Police and local residents pulled bodies from the collapsed house. As distraught residents looked on, they wrapped corpses in bed sheets or mats and loaded them onto a pick-up truck.
Abdul Rahman Mustafa, Kurdish governor of Kirkuk province, vowed to hunt down those responsible.
"What are these children and women guilty of that they should be targeted? The aim of such terror attacks is to ignite strife in Kirkuk," he said. Continued...
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