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Kurdish mayor escapes bombing in northern
Iraq
29.9.2008
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September 29, 2008
BAQUBA, Northern Iraq (outside Kurdistan
region), — A Kurdish mayor of a northern Iraqi town
was wounded on Sunday in a roadside bomb attack
along with six of his guards, police said.
Ahmad al-Zarqoushi,www.ekurd.net
the mayor of Saadiyah
town near the Kurdish-dominated city of Khanaqin,
survived, police Major Shriko Baajilan said. "The
mayor and six of his men were wounded."
The attack came a day after a member of the Kurdish
peshmerga security
forces was killed
when Iraqi police raided a peshmerga post in the
nearby troubled town of Jalawla, also near Khanaqin.
Tension is high between Iraqi forces and peshmerga
who moved into the region after they were asked to
help a drive against al-Qaida insurgents in the
unruly Diyala province,www.ekurd.net
where Jalawla is a
Kurdish enclave.
Peshmerga are former Kurdish guerrillas who fought
against the ousted regime of Saddam Hussein and led
a campaign for autonomy for the Iraqi Kurdish
minority in northern parts of the country.
The Diyala district, which includes a string of villages
and some of Iraq's oil reserves, is home to about
175,000 people, most of them Kurdish Shiites.
Kurdish forces was located in Diyala to protect the
Kurdish civilians in the district.
During the Arabisation policy of Saddam Hussein in
the 1980s, a large number of Kurdish Shiites were
displaced by force from Khanaqin. They started
returning after the fall of Saddam in 2003.
In June 2006, the local council of Khanaqin proposed
that the district be integrated into the autonomous
Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.
The Peshmerga is a term used by the Kurds to refer
to armed Kurdistani forces.
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