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Kurdish Official Says Militants Infiltrate Iraqi Security Forces
Kurdistan Observer ^ | 2005 Jun 25

Posted on 06/27/2005 7:04:26 PM PDT by Wiz

Text of report by T.E entitled "Minister of peshmerga: Documents confirm that terrorists have infiltrated Iraqi forces, Kurdistan peshmerga forces remain unaffected" published by Iraqi Kurdistan Islamic Union weekly newspaper Yekgirtu on 21 June in Kurdish

It has been said that the peshmerga forces have documents confirming the infiltration of some extreme fundamentalist groups into the Iraqi forces. In order to know more about this subject and whether the peshmerga forces have been affected, Hogir Gharib from the weekly Yekgirtu interviewed Minister of Pershmerga Hamid Afandi [in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP-led government].

The minister of peshmerga said that he had a number of documents confirming that the extreme fundamentalist groups had infiltrated the Iraqi army and that some of the recent attacks such as the Kirkuk suicide bombing when a policeman blew himself up during the distribution of aids and salary to the retired police officers and in which tens were killed and scores injured, confirm that.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; isf; islamist; oif; peshmerga; terrorism; terrorist

1 posted on 06/27/2005 7:04:28 PM PDT by Wiz
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2 posted on 06/27/2005 7:04:51 PM PDT by Wiz
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To: Wiz

And this wasn't expected?

Some may slip through the checks, but many are probbably being caught abd dealt with - don't know for sure - just a hunch.


4 posted on 06/27/2005 8:08:41 PM PDT by RebelTex (Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
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