Bomb attack on Kurdish village kills 20
The northern iraq still burns and the Khurds are a frightened lot.The kurdish - Arab battle continues.... IRISH TIMES MICHAEL JANSEN A KURDISH village in northern Iraq was devastated yesterday by a massive truck bomb that killed 20 people and wounded 35. Local police fired on a second truck, killing the driver before he could detonate his explosives. Wardek, a mudbrick village of 250 houses 55km southeast of Nineveh’s provincial capital of Mosul, was the latest target in a tit-for-tat battle for territory between Kurds and Arabs. The Kurds seek to annex their autonomous region portions of Nineveh and Dyala governorates, as well as the whole of oil-rich Tamim province. But Arab Iraqis and the Turkoman minority oppose the expansion of the Kurdish region, and some have taken up arms against the Kurds who retaliate against Arab and Turkomen villages. This struggle is seen by Baghdad and Washington as a greater threat to Iraq’s stability than Sunni-Shia antagonism. The Wardek blast was th