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    Kurdistan President Warns of “Increasing Threats” Following Kirkuk Bombing

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    Kurdistan President Warns of “Increasing Threats” Following Kirkuk Bombing Empty Kurdistan President Warns of “Increasing Threats” Following Kirkuk Bombing

    Post by chouchou Sun 20 Jan 2013, 5:51 am

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    ERBIL,
    Kurdistan Region – The president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region
    warned of “increasing threats that may have terrible consequences,” just
    days after a series of bomb attacks in Kirkuk killed dozens and wounded
    scores.

    “All sides should
    be careful lest certain people or extremist groups hijack and attack
    people’s legitimate demand for their rights,” said Barzani referring to a
    wave of anti-government protests across Iraq’s Sunni provinces.

    Iraq’s
    large Sunni minority has been enraged by the Shiite Prime Minister Nuri
    al-Maliki, staging protests since late December that accuse the
    government of marginalizing Sunni provinces and calling for the release
    of detainees, especially women.

    “It
    is the duty of the federal government to have a wise initiative for
    solving the problems,” said Barzani. “But the government makes threats
    and complicates the situation instead.”

    The
    protests began after security forces raided the home and office of
    Sunni Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi in December and arrested a dozen
    of his bodyguards.

    Again
    last week, Issawi survived an assassination attempt when a bomb
    attacked his convoy of vehicles in the city of Fallujah. A day later in
    the same city, a suicide bomber killed prominent Sunni MP Eifan Saadoun.

    The
    attacks in Kirkuk, an energy-rich province that is claimed by both the
    Kurds and the central government, followed weeks of tensions. Besides
    grappling with the Sunni protests, Maliki’s government has been locked
    in a dangerous military stand-off with the Kurdistan Region since
    November, when he deployed troops to unilaterally take over security in
    Kirkuk, and the Kurds countered by sending in thousands of their own
    Peshmarga forces.

    In
    response to the protests, Maliki indicated in a statement earlier this
    month that he was losing patience with the demonstrations and warned
    that the protests were providing an opportunity for “the enemies of the
    political process, the armed terrorist groups and the remnants of the
    former regime" to infiltrate the demonstrations and threaten national
    unity.

    “Ending
    the tensions needs the correction of the current political process and
    adherence to the constitution for a free life that the Iraqi people
    deserve,” Barzani said.
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