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While Kurds Count Bodies, Iraqi Leaders Try to Bridge Their Divide


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Published: August 17, 2007

BAGHDAD, Aug. 16 — Emergency workers continued Thursday to pull bodies from the rubble of a quadruple truck bombing in two villages near the Syrian border as Iraq’s prime minister, a Shiite, and its president, a Kurd, announced a new alliance of moderates in Parliament.

Security officials near Qahtaniya, where the explosions killed at least 250 people Tuesday night, said plans were being made for the Iraqi government to pay 2 million Iraqi dinars, about $1,600, to the family of each person killed in the blasts.

Kurdish troops arrived on Thursday to help secure the area, which is dominated by the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi sect. The attack was the deadliest since the American-led invasion in 2003.

The death toll remained uncertain. Dakhil Qassim, the mayor of the nearby town of Sinjar, told reporters that as many as 500 people could be dead. Brig. Gen. Khorsheed Saleem al-Dosaki, commander of the Iraqi Army division in the area, said 250 was a more reasonable estimate.

In Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and President Jalal Talabani said their agreement could revive government activity after weeks of a deadlocked dispute over a boycott by the leading Sunni bloc, the Iraqi Consensus Front.

The move appeared aimed at displaying an example of political agreement across sectarian and ethnic lines.

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