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30 killed in Iraq bomb attacks

AGENCIES, Baghdad
At least 30 people were killed and 60 wounded yesterday in bombing attacks in northern Iraq, as the autonomous Kurdish region was set to install its first president.
A blast ripped through waiting civil servants outside a bank in the northern Iraqi oil hub of Kirkuk, killing at least 20 people and wounding 53 others, police said.
A suicide bomber blew himself up amidst public workers standing
outside the Al-Rafidain bank in the city centre, Kirkuk police chief Major General Turhan Yusif said.
According to Colonel Shirzad Abdullah, chief of the Rahimao police station: "Most of the casualties were civil servants lining up outside the bank to receive their monthly pay."
The blast came shortly before Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani was to be sworn in as president of three provinces in northern Iraq, an
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event that seals their long fought-for autonomy but does not resolve the disputed status of Kirkuk.
Meanwhile, 10 Iraqis, including two children, were killed and seven wounded by a car bomb north of Baghdad, according to security and hospital sources.
"Ten people were killed in all and seven wounded," an Iraqi army officer said, adding four deaths among his own soldiers to an earlier report of six dead and four wounded.
The troops had been called in to reinforce a police station in the town of Kanaan that was under mortar attack, and were targetted by a car bomb parked nearby, a police officer said.
In the northern city of Arbil, Barzani, son of the Kurdish nationalist hero Mullah Mustafa Barzani, was to take the oath of office after being formally selected Sunday as president of Iraqi Kurdistan.
"The choice of Barzani as regional president crowns hundreds of years of struggle, strewn with the bodies of martyrs," parliament speaker Adnan al-Mufti had said following the vote.
In Baghdad, the Iraqi court set up to try Saddam Hussein released a video on Monday that showed the ousted leader being interrogated, and in Washington the White House again rejected the idea of laying out a timetable for withdrawing US troops from Iraq.
"I have given the approval to release the tape," Judge Raed al-
Juhi, a member of the Iraqi Special Tribunal, said without elaborating.
CNN television showed brief footage of Juhi questioning a bearded Saddam who was wearing a white shirt and black jacket, reportedly over the 1982 killing of 143 residents of Dujail, a Shia village northeast of Baghdad.
Saddam, who has been in US custody in Iraq since his capture in December 2003, is accused of ordering revenge murders after villagers allegedly tried to assassinate him, along with a litany of other alleged crimes against humanity.
If convicted, he faces the death penalty.
The video's release came after repeated calls from the Shia-dominated government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari to speed up the trial and could have beem aimed at showing the court's progress in bringing charges against Saddam. (AFP, AP)