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Offer to deploy Kurdish militia against "peshmerga"
Iraq insurgents
25.6.2005
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BAQUBA, Iraq,
June 25 (AFP) - 18h09 - The governor of a Kurdish
province in northern Iraq offered Saturday to send
Kurdish militiamen to help restore security in
neighbouring areas ravaged by the persistent Sunni
Arab insurgency.
"We are ready to send peshmerga members to Diyala,
Salaheddin and Kirkuk provinces if we are asked to
help out with the security situation," said Dana
Ahmed Majid, governor of Sulaymaniyah province.
"We respect provincial boundaries but we are
offering our help to bring out peace and security."
Majid spoke at a governors' meeting in Baquba,
capital of Diyala province northeast of the capital.
A ban on militias imposed under the US-led
occupation authority has never applied to the three
northern provinces which Kurdish rebels ruled in
defiance of Saddam Hussein's regime before the 2003
invasion.
The peshmerga continue to oversee security there and
Kurdish members of Iraq's governing coalition,
including President Jalal Talabani, have resisted
all calls for them to disarmed, insisting they be
retained as an independent unit within the Iraqi
armed forces.
Those forces already have a disproportionate number
of Kurdish and Shiite recruits, US commanders have
acknowledged.
AFP
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