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IRAQ: Suicide bomber kills nine in Iraq's Mosul.

A suicide bomber killed nine people outside the offices of a Kurdish political party in northern Iraq on Tuesday (August 15). A dump truck rigged with explosives was detonated at the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the city of Mosul, police colonel Kareem Khalaf said. Five Kurdish peshmerga militiamen were among the dead and 36 people were wounded, police said. Mosul, a religiously divided city 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, has been gripped by sectarian bloodshed. U.S. and Iraqi troops fought gunbattles with militants there this month. Shi'ite Islamist Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who took office nearly three months ago, has vowed to reduce violence in Iraq as part of his national reconciliation programme. But despite a huge security crackdown by U.S. and Iraqi troops in Baghdad, U.S. generals now openly talk of the threat of civil war.

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