KurdistanObserver.com   Car Bomb Leaves 18 Peshmerga Casualties North Mosul Aug 10, 2007 BAGHDAD, Aug 10 (KUNA) -- Four servicemen of the Kurdish troops - known as Peshmerga - were killed and fourteen others injured in a suicide car bomb attack in Ein-Zala town, north Mosul, Friday. The suicide attacker targeted a Peshmerga military convoy on its way to the barracks of the First Division of Peshmerga in the area, vice commander of the division Colonel Fahmy Sofi told reporters. The Peshmerga carried weapons against deposed regime of Saddam Hussein in Kurdistan region, north Iraq, before the region declared its cessation from Iraq in 1991. After the Iraq war in 2003, the forces were officially recognized and were charged to keep order and security in the region. Meanwhile, the death toll of another car bomb attack in a Kurdish marketplace in Kirkuk, 250 k.m. north Baghdad, Friday afternoon rose to nine with 52 others wounded, according to a police source. The attack, carried out by an Opel car, also damaged many nearby shops and cars, the source added.       Copyright © 2002, Kurdistan Observer