9) Ahmed Abdul Hussein bDamerchi/b.[8] Also in Kirkuk, on the night of Saturday the 22nd of August 2003, rocket-propelled grenades were fired by Kurdish rebels at statues of two Turkmen heroes, who were killed by the Kurds in the Turkmen massacre of 14th July 1959, ... Nevertheless, on the way to Najaf, the bodies were taken to the Palestine bHotel/b in Baghdad and they were shown to the national and internal journalists who were based there to cover the Iraqi war. ...
