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At least 74 killed, 185 wounded in twin Kirkuk blasts (1st Lead)
Jul 16, 2007, 10:31 GMT
Eds: Details on second blast, corrects spelling of district in graf 2
Baghdad (dpa) - More than 74 people were killed and over 185 others wounded Monday in twin blasts targeting Kurdish buildings in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, senior officer Barsoun Abdullah of the Kirkuk police said.
A truck bomb driven by a suicide bomber attacked a building in the predominantly Kurdish Imam Qasim district housing the Kurdistan Olympic Committee as well as a cultural centre occupied by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the party of Iraqi president Jalal Talabani.
The building collapsed totally, with 20 cars and a number of stores severely damaged.
Meanwhile around 80 minutes later a car bomb went off in the Hasir public marketplace, one kilometre away from the first explosion, injuring five people.
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Steve RealJul 16th, 2007 - 13:38:44
Since 95% of car bombings
are done by foreign jihadis.
Let me take a guess?
This is another truck bombing
done by a Saudi national.
The Saudi jihadis are racking up
quite the death toll for
the people of Iraq.
I've read estimates of 4,000 people
to 20,000 people die in just Saudi jihadist suicide attacks alone.
I say
get tough on evil.
Good Luck
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