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KurdistanObserver.com
Kurdish Religious Leader Gunned Down In Kirkuk
KIRKUK, (Southern Kurdistan), Feb 19 (AFP)
Unknown gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim sheikh in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk
on Saturday, police said.
"Sheikh Mullah Mohammed Rustom Kaka, leader of the (Sunni) Kurdish Committee
of Alemas, was killed by unknown gunfire aimed at his car in the east of Kirkuk
at 10:55 (0755 GMT)," said police General Sherko Shaker Hakim.
The 58-year-old was involved with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, police
said.
The KDP is one of two major Kurdish parties in northern Iraq, both of which
had considerable success in last month's historic elections, unseating Sunni
Arabs who held power in the region under deposed leader Saddam Hussein.
A KDP representative in the city suggested that Kirkuk "security forces and
government officials" were to blame.
He said that the sheikh "fought for the Kurdish identity and the Kurdish
personality of Kirkuk".
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