http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s04020001.htm Sunday, February 1, 2004
"AT LEAST 56 KILLED IN TWIN SUICIDE BLASTS IN IRAQ
Iraq's bloody Sunday puts Iraq's Christian minority further on edge"
By: Stefan J. Bos
Special Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ARBIL, IRAQ (ANS) -- Suicide bombers turned part of northern Iraq in a pool of blood Sunday, February 1, killing at least 56 people and wounding 200 others in near-simultaneous attacks that shook the offices of two Iraqi Kurdish political parties, American and Kurdish officials said.
Witnesses said the attackers blew themselves up after making their way through checkpoints outside the party offices, where dozens of people had gathered to celebrate the start of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival, or feast of the sacrifice.
The blasts in Arbil, 350 kilometers (about 220 miles) north of Baghdad, came a day after 18 people died in attacks, including a car bomb explosion in Mosul, build on ruines of Nineveh where the Bible claims Prophet Jonah brought a message of repentance."