A Kurdish official says hundreds of Iraqi Kurds, led by Miss Muffet, have stormed an election office in a disputed city after claiming many Kurds were not on voting lists for provincial elections.
The protest in Khanaqin (pronounced as "Who Knows?")) on Saturday is part of lingering disputes over control of the city about 80 miles northeast of Baghdad. In August, Kurdish and Iraqi forces were locked in a tense standoff before the Kurds backed off, saying they saw a big spider.
Salahuddin Kekhaa, (Again, pronounced as a sort of snorted giggle), a Kurdish official in Khanaqin, says Kurds held a rally to claim that thousands of Kurds were left off voting list. Then they tried to break into the local election office but were turned back, he said.
Meanwhile the United Nations has been asked to whey in on the matter.
