Car bomb explosion in Mosul in Yazidi wedding 17.12.2012

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December 17, 2012

MOSUL, Northwest Iraq,— A security source in Mosul in Nineveh province revealed Monday, that a car bomb targeted a Kurdish Yazidi citizen’s wedding tent in Tilkaif district as it has left material losses only, pointing out that the search for another car bomb is taking place as other intelligence reports confirm its presence in the region.

The source, who asked anonymity, told Shafaq News, that “the wedding tent that was installed since Sunday for a Yazidi citizen in Tilkaif district (20 km north of Mosul) was targeted on Monday morning by a car bomb that exploded, leaving large material damage in the surrounding buildings. "

"The explosion did not result any human casualties as no one was hurt in the incident”.

The source noted that "security alert and strong measures have been taken in order to find the car bombs and prevent its detonation to protect the lives of citizens", adding that "the police forces and Kurdish security forces (Asayish) are participating in the search for the other car bomb."

Mosul, capital city of Ninewa province in Iraq, near the border with Kurdistan region,www.ekurd.net lies 405 km north of Baghdad. The Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds located near Mosul. A Kurdish Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds located near Mosul. Some 350,000 Yazidis live in villages around Mosul near Kurdistan autonomous region border.

Kurdish Yazidis look to Kurdistan region, the Kurdish Yazidis are concentrated in key areas for the referendum, including lands coveted by the Kurds north of Mosul and around Sinjar on the Syrian border. The Kurds see the referendum as a chance to right Saddam Hussein's historic wrongs of forced population transfer and Arabization.

Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution states that there will be a referendum in the areas bordering the Kurdistan autonomous region, including the northern oil city of Kirkuk, so that people can choose whether to be ruled by the central government or the Kurds.

Kurds living near by Mosul are under continuous attacks by Insurgents. Kurdish Yazidis have been frequent targets of Sunni attacks.

Car bomb explosion east of Mosul kills five Kurdish Shabak citizens

While a security source revealed on Monday in Mosul, that five people were killed and ten others were wounded from Kurdish Shabak citizens, when a car bomb in Khazna town affiliated to Mosul exploded in Nineveh province.

The source said "A car bomb was parked on the road in Khazna town (20 kilometers east of Mosul in Nineveh province) exploded in the early hours of Monday morning, causing the death of five people and the injury of ten others “.

The source noted that "civil defense teams and ambulances rushed to the scene and evacuated the dead and injured to nearby hospitals," adding that "security forces cordoned off the area around the incident and launched a search campaign for those involved."

On November 1, 2008, hundreds of Iraq’s Shabak people took to the streets in Mosul-Ninewa calling for including them in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, according to a local official.

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Dec 17 (Reuters) - Bombs exploded in three towns and villages in Iraq's disputed territories on Monday, killing at least 11 people in the second day of attacks in areas at the centre of a feud between Baghdad and autonomous Kurdistan.

Two blasts hit a Shi'ite district in Tuz Khurmato, killing at least four and wounding 24 and a truck bomb killed seven in a Shabak minority area near Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of the capital, security and local officials said.

Another car bomb hit a second village near Mosul without causing any casualties, police said.

No one claimed responsibility for Monday's blasts. But the areas have been a potential flashpoint between the Arab-led central government and ethnic Kurds since the last American troops left the country a year ago.

The ethnically mixed, disputed territories are a swath of land marking Iraq from the area administered by Kurds in the north, including the sensitive city of Kirkuk, which sits atop some of the world's largest oil reserves.

Last month, both Baghdad and Kurdistan sent troops from their respective armies to reinforce posts around towns in the disputed territories, escalating tensions in their long-running fight for control of land and oil wealth.

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