Amirli

Amirli

:"For the place in Azerbaijan, see Əmirli."Amirli is a town near Kirkuk in northern Iraq. It has a population of 26000 mainly from Iraq's Turkoman ethnic minority. Amirli is located in Salah ad Din Governorate near the border with Diyala Governorate. The town is the centre of a farming region. [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/07/07/international/i115612D22.DTL&tsp=1 AP via "San Francisco Chronicle" "Suicide Bomb Kills Over 100 in Iraq"] July 7 2007]

On June 7 2007, the 2007 Amirli bombing in the market place killed 105 people with another 250 injured. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6279864.stm BBC News "Iraq market truck bomb kills 105"] 7 July 2007]

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