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Violence Rises in Iraq’s Tense North

Violence Rises in Iraq’s Tense North. Yoona Cha. WHO. Iranians (Arabs + Kurds). WHAT. demonstrations in Mosul (car bomb killed 7 and wounded 18 in Kirkuk) bomber rammed a car into police patrol near headquarter of main Turkmen political party

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Violence Rises in Iraq’s Tense North

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  1. Violence Rises in Iraq’s Tense North • Yoona Cha

  2. WHO • Iranians (Arabs + Kurds)

  3. WHAT • demonstrations in Mosul (car bomb killed 7 and wounded 18 in Kirkuk) • bomber rammed a car into police patrol near headquarter of main Turkmen political party • Atheel al-Nujaifi prevented by Kurdish security forces from attending a hot-air balloon festival in Bashiqa

  4. WHEN • Tuesday May 12, 2009 • one day after a car bomb left three dead and eight wounded outside a Kirkuk mosque

  5. WHERE • Kirkuk, an industrial city in northern Iraq, center of oil industry in that region

  6. WHY • Kirkuk is the most controversial point on a tense ethnic fault line between Kurds and Arabs that stretches wast from Syria and south along the Iranian border • Americans brought in Kurdish security forces (pesh merga) to Nineveh in 2003 to pacify • Arabs protest • Pesh merga argues “The pesh merga will not leave.They are in Kurdish areas to protect the citizens.

  7. CONNECTION • prosecution of Jews in Germany (WWI)

  8. BIBLIOGRAPHY • http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/world/middleeast/13iraq.html?ref=middleeast

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