What authorities call a "tribal dispute" between Arabs and Turkmen [2] over land near Iraq's oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk [3] left three people dead and several more wounded several others Feb. 11. The incident began with a protest by Turkmen against Arabs who were building houses in the village of Basheer. (Reuters [4], Feb. 11) Six were killed and 22 wounded in three car bomb attacks in Kirkuk on Feb. 9, in what authorities said was an attack by Ansar al-Islam [5] on the Kurdish [6] militia Asayish [7]. (NYT [8], Xinhua [9], Feb. 9)
On Feb. 10, a car bomb killed at least eight Shi'ite pilgrims [10] and wounded some 40 more near the central Iraqi town of Dujail. The victims were traveling to the city of Samarra [11] for a festival commemorating the death of ninth century imam Hassan al-Askari. (VOA [12], Feb. 10)
Dujail was the scene of a 1982 massacre of Shi'ites [13] by Saddam Hussein's security forces.
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