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Iraq

Gunmen Ransack Talabani Party Office In Iraq

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani (file photo) (epa)

August 11, 2006 -- Gunmen have smashed and burned the offices of the Iraqi president's Kurdish party in the city of Al-Karbala, south of Baghdad.

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The assailants were reportedly angry about criticism in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's official newspaper of a Shi'ite cleric.


The article stated that the cleric, Muhammad al-Yakubi, was trying to ignite a war between Shi'a and Kurds.

 
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