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Iraqi officials say a truck bomb has killed at least 20 people and wounded 27 others in a Kurdish village in northern Iraq.
An Iraqi man sits in the ruins of a Kurdish village after a predawn suicide truck bombing in Wardek, southeast of Mosul in northern Iraq, 10 Sep 2009
Authorities say the blast tore through Wardak village before dawn, killing1 people as they slept in their homes. Several houses collapsed2, trapping and injuring other victims.
Police say they prevented a second suicide bomber3 attack, shooting and killing an assailant before he could strike.
The Kurdish village lies east of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province. It is one of the last regions where insurgents4 still have a firm position, after being forced out of other areas by Iraqi and U.S. troops.
Tensions between ethnic5 Kurds and Arabs are on full display in such towns as Wardak. Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government would like to extend its control in the oil-rich region, while Baghdad wants to keep it under the central government.
International Crisis Group political analyst6 Peter Harling says there is a wide range of possible motives7 for the attacks, but unresolved issues between Arabs and Kurds are an underlying8 cause of problems.
"The exact distribution of lands, of resources, and of power along these lines is an issue which has been left completely unattended since 2003," he said. "And I think the Iraqi government, Iraq as a whole and the U.S. are now paying the price for that."
The Damascus-based political analyst, says the constitutional and territorial9 issues involved require more compromise than either the central government or Kurdish side has yet to show.
"A solution is to bring in outside leverage10, but that would mean the U.S. working hand-in-hand with other players that have leverage in Iraq, and I do not see that happening anytime soon," he added. "Anyway, not before some progress is made, for example, with Syria and America, and more importantly in the American-Iranian relationship.
The issues are likely to play an important part in national elections set for early next year.
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n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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n.轰炸机,投弹手,投掷炸弹者 | |
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n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 ) | |
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n.力量,影响;杠杆作用,杠杆的力量 | |
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