Reuters: Car bombs and clashes hit northern Iraq

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Car bombs and clashes hit northern Iraq

By Mussab Al-Khairalla

1 hour, 11 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Seven car bombs shook the ethnically mixed Iraqi city of Kirkuk
on Saturday and rampaging insurgents forced authorities in Mosul to close bridges and
order people off the streets.

The attacks came as the country's top Shi'ite cleric renewed an appeal for Iraqis
to reject violence and a day after a U.S. intelligence report said elements of the
conflict could be called "civil war."

In the northern city of Kirkuk, seven car bombings, including a suicide attack, killed
at least four civilians and wounded 37. Two of the cars detonated outside the offices
of the main Kurdish parties in the city.

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Further north, another curfew was imposed in Mosul, Iraq's third largest city, after
clashes between insurgents and police erupted in several neighborhoods. A police source
said the militants planned to take over the city.

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(Additional reporting by Mustafa Mahmoud and Sherko Raouf in Kirkuk and Mariam Karouny
in Baghdad)

Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070203/wl_nm/iraq_dc

The article continues with other incidents in Iraq.

Related:
Series of bombs hit Kirkuk, killing 2 - AP
N Iraq city hit by bombing wave - BBC (5 reported dead)

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1. "Would you liberals shut up about this stuff." - Commander AWOL

"You are distorting reality. Why do I never see anything 'good' in the 'liberal' media about the gloriously massive war profits that me and my republicon cronies are raking in?

"How about some of that good news...and don't disturb me again with reality, I am really, really busy. Smirk, smirk, smirk."

- Commander AWOL, former connecticut preppy cheerleader & pretend Texan