Reported:
Blasts Target Iraq's Kurdish Parties
http://www.puk.org/web/htm/news/nws/news040202.html Local Leaders Among at Least 56 Killed in Suicide Attacks at Political Offices
By Daniel Williams
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, February 2, 2004; Page A01
IRBIL, Iraq, Feb. 1 -- In nearly simultaneous strikes Sunday, a pair of suicide bombers set off explosives during Muslim holiday celebrations inside two buildings housing offices of the main Kurdish parties in northern Iraq, killing at least 56 people and wounding more than 200.
The blasts killed senior members of the two parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which are among the best-organized and most staunch U.S. allies in Iraq. Both groups supported the invasion that toppled President Saddam Hussein and put their large militias at the service of U.S. commanders. [SNIP]