[HAL9000]

According to this report, the source is "Captain Ghanim al-Jabouri of the District Police".

[SolidWood]

Dhakil Qassim, mayor of Sinjar, a town near where the attacks occurred, said al-Qaida in Iraq was behind the attack, citing what he said were Kurdish government intelligence reports.

A few hours after an attack the mayor of a town get's to read Kurdish intelligence reports!!?? Even more so the area of the attack wasn't in Kurdish territory. This sounds like BS.

[tobyhill]

He’s police and not military.

[tobyhill]

“At least 175 people were killed when three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers attacked a town in northern Iraq on Tuesday.

Iraqi army Captain Mohammad al-Jaad said at least another 200 people were wounded in the bombings in separate Yazidi neighbourhoods in the town of Kahtaniya, west of Mosul.”

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200708150900/at_least_175_killed_in_iraq_bombings