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Shabaki MP survives assassination attempt in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Shabaki lawmaker Haneen al-Qado from the Shiite Unified Iraqi Alliance (UIA) on Wednesday said that he survived an assassination attempt while celebrating Ashuraa in Mosul city. “My motorcade came under fire near Zen al-Abideen Shrine, at Bertela area in Mosul,” al-Qado told IraqiNews.com news agency. “I accuse armed groups in the region of targeting me,” he added. Mosul, the capital city of the Sunni dominated Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. The Shabak people are an ethnic group that lives primarily in the province of Ninewa in Iraq. Their language, Shabaki, is a Zaza-Gorani dialect, similar to Kurdish, with many borrowings from Turkish, Persian, and Arabic. According to another source, they speak a dialect of Kurdish with borrowings from Arabic and Turkish. They are scattered throughout 35 villages located in the east of Mosul. While Kurds considered the Shabak ethnically Kurds, they identified themselves as Shiites and a separate ethnic group. MH (P)/ SH 1

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