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Baghdad blast rocks kurdish headquarters { June 1 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5632-2004Jun1.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5632-2004Jun1.html Baghdad Blast Rocks Kurdish Party Headquarters Second Bomb Explodes in Northern City of Beiji Associated Press Tuesday, June 1, 2004; 6:38 AM BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside the Baghdad office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, located near headquarters of the U.S.-run coalition. Arab language television stations reported that about 10 people died in the blast. In the northern city of Beiji, another car bomb exploded near the U.S. military base and an Interior Ministry official told The Associated Press that 11 Iraqis were killed and 26 wounded. The blast occurred Tuesday around outside the gates of the 1st Infantry Division's forward operating base, Summerall, in Beiji, which is 155 miles north of Baghdad, press spokesman Capt. Bill Coppernoll said. He could not confirm the number of casualties. In Baghdad, ambulances raced to the scene of the blast and U.S. troops kept people back. Television footage showed debris and a charred wall of a building. Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya quoted police as saying about 10 people were killed. But the information could not immediately be confirmed. The PUK is seen as being close to the Americans. Under the leadership of Jalal Talabani, the party represented one of the main anti-Saddam forces on Iraqi soil after the Gulf War. Fighters from the party backed American forces in last year's invasion. Talabani holds a seat on the Governing Council and held the council's rotating presidency in November. The bomb was one of several blasts heard in the capital just after reports circulated that Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, current head of the Iraqi Governing Council, had been selected as president of the interim government set to take power June 30. Another blast, followed by gunfire, sent a mushroom cloud 100 feet billowing into the dusty air hanging over the city. Coalition aircraft could be heard flying over Baghdad. The blast near the PUK offices was heard shortly afterward. © 2004 The Associated Press

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