Bombings in northern Iraq oil city kill 7
YAHYA BARZANJI Associated Press= SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — A suicide bomber struck a Kurdish security headquarters in the first of a string of attacks Wednesday against the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk that killed seven and wounded up to 80 people. Within minutes, two more bombs exploded nearby, sending dark plumes of smoke into the clear winter sky and ending a six-month lull in violence in a city rife with simmering ethnic tensions located 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad. The city is divided between Kurds, Turkomen and Sunni and Shiite Arabs and has long been feared to be a potential new flashpoint in Iraq. Police Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir said two policemen were among the dead,…
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