At least nine people are killed when a car bomb exploded inside a residential complex housing displaced Shi'ite Muslims in the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul.<br/> The bombing is the latest in a series of attacks on Shi'ite targets since December when Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government ordered the arrest of a Sunni vice president, touching off a crisis threatening Iraq's fragile power-sharing government.<br/> (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED WITNESS, SAYING:<br/> "The car bomb targeted innocent people, shop owners and people sitting in their homes, children and women. Children who were shopping were also among the victims."<br/> Police said they found another car bomb at the scene and closed the area for several hours to defuse it.<br/> Mosul, in northern Iraq, was once an al Qaeda stronghold, and witnessed some of the fiercest fighting during the war that followed the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.<br/> The eastern outskirts of Mosul form part of the disputed areas between the central government and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region Government in the north.<br/> The disputed territories between Iraqi Arabs and Kurds are seen as a flashpoints for possible conflict after the last American troops left Iraq in December.<br/> Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
