[DoctorZIn]

Kurds Say Anti-US Extremists Moving Into Iraq From Iran

August 18, 2003
Turkish Daily News
Baku Daily

More than 1,000 al Qaeda operatives including Arabs and Afghans as well as other Middle Eastern radicals have slipped into Iraq through the rugged mountains bordering Iran in recent months adding to the terrorist threat against U.S. forces, diplomatic sources told the Turkish Daily News on Friday.

The extremists have reportedly traveled from Afghanistan to Iraq via Iran. The TDN was told dozens of such extremists have been taken into custody by the forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in recent weeks but still hundreds have managed to slip into Iraq through the mountain passes that have been used by Turkey's separatist Kurdish terrorists to slip in and out of northern Iraq via Iran.

The extremists reportedly travel to the pro-Saddam areas of Iraq where American soldiers are coming under daily attacks.

The diplomatic sources said it was not certain why the Iranians had turned a blind eye to the extremists transiting their country.

Meanwhile, the TDN also learnt that new militants from the extremist Islamic group Islamic Ansar have also slipped into northern Iraq into areas controlled by PUK to assassinate high level party officials led by Jalal Talabani, the president of PUK.

The Americans and PUK forces had launched a massive attack against the Islami Ansan hideouts in the mountains during the war to topple Saddam Hussien and wiped out most of their militants. This time new recruits from Iran reportedly infiltrated the PUK area. Americans forces launched an offensive against Islami Ansar in the past few days, the TDN was told.

Source: Turkish Daily News

http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=5846

[DoctorZIn]

Kurds Say Anti-US Extremists Moving Into Iraq From Iran

August 18, 2003
Turkish Daily News
Baku Daily

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/965824/posts?page=10#10

[F14 Pilot]

Larijani: "Iran should resist the West on nuclear issue"

Monday, August 18, 2003 - ©2003 IranMania.com

TEHRAN, Aug 17 (AFP)--Iran should resist Western demands it sign the additional protocol of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that would allow for unscheduled inspections of suspected nuclearsites, a leading conservative official said Sunday.

There is "no guarantee that the Americans, after the signing of the additional protocol and inspections of nuclear installations, will not invent other pretexts to accuse Iran of developing weapons of mass destruction," said Ali Larijani, the head of Iranian radio ......

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=17508&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs

[AdmSmith]

The border between Iran and Iraq is very difficult to monitor, it has been and is porous and a heaven for smugglers. But, beware of mines.