A Bomb Explodes In Front Of A U.N. Occupied Building In Iraqi Kurdistan

July 16, 2001

A bomb containing a large amount of TNT exploded Friday night in front of a building
housing KRO, a U.N. relief agency operating in Iraqi Kurdistan, reported the London based
Arabic newspaper, Al Zaman, last Saturday. 

The bomb exploded in the town of Ain Kawa near the Capital city Irbil causing damage to
the agency's building and a number of dwellings in that neighborhood.

No one has yet been arrested for setting the bomb.  However, investigators believe it is an act
of terrorism aimed at the presence of the U.N. agencies, which over the last decade, have
been helping the Kurds with food, shelter and other essential humanitarian services.
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