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Car Bombs In Iraq Kill 190
Another Iraqi officer described the scene as apocalyptic: "It looks like a nuclear bomb hit the villages," he said.
The bombs detonated in quick succession around 8 p.m. in Qahtaniya and Al Jazeera, a pair of towns filled mostly with Yazidis, a pre-Islamic minority sect that speaks Kurdish. The group has long been a minority in Iraq, and after suffering attacks and death threats from Sunni extremists in Mosul, many Yazidis have recently moved to villages farther west where they comprise a majority.
New York Times | DAMIEN CAVE | August 14, 2007 08:35 PM