KARBALA/ Aswat al-Iraq: Al-Muwatin (The Citizen) bloc MP said that the attacks against the minorities in Iraq are "preplanned machinations to empty Iraq of it is components".

MP Habeeb al-Tarfi, affiliate to the Higher Islamic Council, told Aswat al-Iraq that "there is a plan to attack ethnic Iraqi components, as done with the Christians and the Izidis, but now they are planning to attack the Turkmen".

He pointed out that continued explosions in Touzkhormato mean "to empty the country of this Turkmen component".

Touzkhormato, 80 km south Kirkuk, contains different Kurdish, Turkmen and Arab components and witnesses continued terrorist actions against the people there.