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Kurdish official announced that the security forces
under the Kurdistani Democratic Party have arrested
two armed groups in the city of Erbil. The two
groups have confessed their involvement in a number
of attacks and explosions in the city, in which a
great number of police affiliates and civilians were
victimized.
In a press conference in Birmam Summer resort (25 km
north of Erbil), Masrour Barzani, son of the
president of Kurdistan region Masud Barzani and the
official of the Kurdistani national security
authority, said that the first group consists of six
members of Al Qaeda Organization and the second
group includes three members of Ansar Al Sunna
organization.
The two groups were working independently. Barzani
accused the members of the two groups of
assassinating and attempting to assassinate a number
of the Kurdish security officials, in addition to
attacking a camp of the Korean forces, which are
based in the west of Erbil city.
As regards the identity of the members of the two
groups, the Kurdish security official only said that
the group, which is affiliated with Ansar Al Sunna,
consists of two men and a woman, who planned for
executing the suicide attack in front of the
Kurdistani Democratic party branch in Erbil, which
was used as a registration office for the volunteers
in the police forces last May. The attack has
resulted in the death of approximately 70 persons of
volunteers and citizens.
Barzani accused the group, which belongs to Al Qaeda
Organization of planning and executing the explosion
in front of Erbil Traffic Police Department last
June, which has led to the death and injury of tens
of police affiliates. The official of the Kurdistani
National Security Administration ahs promised to
transmit the confessions of the two groups on TV
soon.
Al Sharq Al Awsat
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