Suicide Car Bombings Kill 9 in Iraq

[maddezmom]

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - A suicide car bomb exploded near a regional government ministry in a predominantly Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding four, a security official said.

The blast occurred on the outskirts of Sulaimaniyah, right outside the ministry, that houses Kurdish forces known as peshmerga. The explosion killed six peshmerga and three civilians and wounded two peshmerga and two civilians, said Lt. Col. Taha Redha, a peshmerga official.

It was one of two suicide attacks by insurgents on Tuesday in the generally peaceful province 160 miles northeast of Baghdad.

About 45 minutes earlier, a suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a seven-car convoy carrying Mullah Bakhtiyar, a senior Kurdish official in President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party, said police Col. Najim Al-Din Qader. The blast in Sulaimaniya city wounded two of the convoy's guards and damaged two of its cars, Qader said.

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[cantstandbush]

1. So now the Kurds know we can't protect them either.

We had protected them for over 12 years with our illegal no-fly zones. Now that we occupy Iraq and brought Al-qaeda inside their home in full force, they will be paying a hefty toll along with the rest of the coalition. Great work. GW you are doing a hellava job!