IED defused in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A combined security force in Kirkuk defused an improvised explosive device (IED) in the northwestern part of the city without incident on Friday, a source from the Joint Coordination Center (JCC) in Kirkuk said. “A police patrol found an IED near the Kirkuk-Arbil motorway that links the North Oil Company to Rahimawa neighborhood and dismantled the charge without incident,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Traffic on the road was stopped for more than an hour, causing congestion on the nearby branch roads,” he added. The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 2