Bombing At Kurdish Police Station Kills

Juan Cole 02/23/2004

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Bombing at Kurdish Police Station Kills 13, Wounds Dozens

Reuters now says that a suicide bomber killed himself and 13 policemen in an attack on a police station in a Kurdish neighborhood of Kirkuk, which also wounded over 50 others. Kirkuk, with a mixed Turkmen, Arab and Kurdish population, has been the site of ethnic disturbances in recent weeks.

AP also reported, ‘On Sunday, a roadside bomb killed an Iraqi near the northern city of Mosul, while another bomb exploded in Baghdad’s al-Washash neighborhood and injured four Iraqi policemen.‘

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page