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	<title>Iraq Oil Report &#187; Kirkuk</title>
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		<title>Two killed by Kirkuk motorcycle bomb</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Iraqi civilians have been killed and three others were injured on Thursday morning, by a booby-trapped motorbike explosion in northern Iraq’s oil-rich city of Kirkuk, according to a statement by its Police Director. “A booby-trapped motorbike has blown off close to a telephone exchange in northern Kirkuk’s Tisin district on Thursday, killing 2 civilians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talabani, Maliki and disputed territories</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the political scene in Iraq quietens down for the Shiite Arbain festival and a long weekend, it may be worthwhile to take a closer look at Maliki’s statements regarding disputed territories and the creation of new federal regions that may well reflect his negotiation strategy over coming months. The most sensational aspects of Maliki’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 wounded in Kirkuk double bombing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Car Bombs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deputy Police Chief]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least 20 people were wounded, some critically, in a double bombing Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. The two car bombs targeted the homes of police officers in different parts of the city and detonated within half an hour of each other, said Gen. Torhan Abdulrahman, the deputy police chief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two gunmen killed while attacking Representative&#039;s house in Kirkuk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guards of Representative Zhae al-Naftchi shot two gunmen dead in Kirkuk after the militants attacked the Representative's house, a security source told AKnews. “Unidentified gunmen attacked the house of Iraqiya Representative Zhale al-Naftchi in central Kirkuk today. The guards engaged the gunmen and killed two of them,” an anonymous security source told AKnews. The source [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al-Qaeda band detained in Kirkuk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Security forces in Kirkuk have detained a five-member militant group in southern Kirkuk that has operated under the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) organization – al-Qaeda’s Iraq front. Police said the group have been responsible for scores of armed attacks in southern western areas of Kirkuk “and were planning to attack police and government offices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#039;s Sunir gets $72M power deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electricity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq signed a $72 million electricity deal with Iranian power development firm Sunir to expand a plant in northern Iraq by 320 megawatts to help feed the power-starved nation, an electricity ministry official said on Monday. The Iranian company will install two gas units, each with a production capacity of 160 megawatts, at Dibis power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three killed in Kirkuk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Al Qadisiyah]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three civilians were killed and a woman was injured in two separate attacks in the disputed city of Kirkuk, police said Sunday. "Unidentified gunmen attacked a civilian man this morning with machine guns while he was leaving his home in Kirkuk's al-Qadisiyah neighborhood, killing him immediately," a police officer told AKnews. In a separate incident, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quartet of IED attacks kill one and injure 13 in Kirkuk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four explosions that ripped through the disputed city of Kirkuk have left fourteen people dead or wounded. Brig. Sarhad Qader, Kirkuk districts police chief, told AKnews: "The final causalities of four attacks with improvised explosives devices yesterday in Kirkuk are one killed and 13 wounded."]]></description>
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		<title>Kirkuk in the wake of the US withdrawal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Lando</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ethnic fault line that bisects northern Iraq, imperfectly dividing Arabs and Kurds, might as well have been geological: the temblors it occasionally produces are as destructive as anything measured on the Richter scale. Yet, since 2003 at least, things have been surprisingly quiet along this line, even if the local population is frequently roused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asayish officer, wife wounded by IED in Kirkuk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Van Heuvelen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An officer of the Kurdish intelligence police Asayish and his wife were injured on Sunday in the volatile multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk after two IEDs placed around their house went off. Asayish Lt. Azad Sadullah was about to leave his house, he and his wife were standing in the door, when the IEDs exploded, according [...]]]></description>
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