One killed, one wounded after Kirkuk protests

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LOG240328.htm

KIRKUK, Iraq, Jan 2 (Reuters) - At least one man was killed and another wounded overnight as police and protesters clashed in Iraq's ethnically split oil city of Kirkuk, police said.

The city, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, was the site of fierce protests earlier this week over a political bid by Kurds for control of the city that resulted in several deaths.

The protests are the latest episode of violence among Kurds, Arabs and Turkish-speaking Turkmen in the city as they vie for political power after the fall of Saddam Hussein, who had driven Kurds and Turkmen from Kirkuk.

At least five people were killed on Wednesday when gunfire erupted as Turkmen and Arabs faced off with the mainly Kurdish police during a protest against a plan to include Kirkuk in a Kurdish administrative unit in a federal government.

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[loudnclear]

1. Destablization is the first step in the peace process...

didn't you know that?

[lefty_mcduff]

2. Using the WH's Orwellian calculator of success...

...that growing chaos and mayhem is a sign of improving conditions in Iraq - things are getting really peachy.

[Barrett808]

3. Kirkuk -- ground zero in the civil war n/t

n/r