Sunday, February 01, 2004

Meanwhile in Iraq

As Georgie would tell you, things are getting better and better.

Two suicide bombers strapped with explosives blew themselves up in nearly simultaneous attacks on offices of two Kurdish parties in Iraq Sunday, killing and wounding as many as 200 people, officials said.

...The blasts hit the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the PUK, the main factions in Iraq's Kurdish north, at about 10:30 a.m. (0730 GMT) as officials received visitors for a Muslim holiday.

..."The significance of this is devastating to the leadership of the Kurdish Democratic Party, one of the U.S.'s biggest allies in the war."

Many senior officials of the KDP, which controls a part of Iraq bordering Turkey, and the PUK, controlling the east of the region, were present when the bombers struck.

...Several senior PUK officials have been targeted in assassination attempts in recent years, attacks they blamed on the Muslim militant Ansar al-Islam group.

Ansar had a stronghold in PUK territory ahead of the war that ousted Saddam Hussein, and U.S. officials say the organization has regrouped and was involved in several attacks in recent months.
  Reuters article

Well, at least the Kurds aren't fighting each other again. Yet.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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