Iraq Gunmen Kill Tribal Leader
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Gunmen shot and killed a moderate Sunni Muslim tribal leader with close ties to Iraqi Kurds in the northern city of Kirkuk (search), police said Saturday.
Sheik Sabhan Khalaf al-Jibouri (search), 52, died in a hail of machine-gun fire late Friday outside his home, Maj. Gen. Anwar Mohammed Amin said. The unidentified gunmen fled. The victim had been a member of Kirkuk's now-dissolved Governing Council.
Kirkuk is an ethnically mixed city 180 miles north of Baghdad (search).
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Insurgents have routinely targeted moderate tribal leaders along with Kurdish and Turkomen officials, seeking to foment ethnic tension. Militants operating there have also attacked police.