- A car bomb in northern Iraq has killed one journalist
and wounded nine people, according to a Kurdish official.
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- Iraqi Kurds blame a group linked to Osama bin Laden's
al Qaeda terror network for the car bomb.
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- The nationality of the journalist was not immediately
known.
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- Security officials of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
said they believed the Ansar al-Islam group, which Washington has linked
with al Qaeda, was responsible for the bombing, outside the village of
Khurmal.
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- The village is in a mountainous area which is the stronghold
of Ansar, close to the border with Iran. Kurds said the area was hit in
an American missile and bombing attack early on Saturday.
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- "We consider it a terrorist operation by Ansar,"
said a PUK security official.
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- "It seems the car belonged to a member of Ansar."
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- http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1084686,00.html
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