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Islamists arrested in Iraqi Kurdistan
Region
24.12.2006
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Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region (Iraq), December
24, -- Security forces in Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous
region have arrested several followers of previously
tolerated Islamist parties, accusing them of links
to insurgents, officials said Sunday.
‘Those arrested are accused of links with Ansar Al
Islam,’ said the autonomous region’s head of public
security, Saif Al Din Ali Ahmed. He gave no more
details and did not say how many arrests had been
made.
A violent Islamist movement with alleged links to Al
Qaeda, Ansar Al Islam has been attacked by US forces
and is accused of taking part in the insurgency
raging in Iraq.
Kamel Haji Ali, a member of Al Haraka Al Islamiya,
said that activists from both his movement and Al
Jamaa Al Islamiya, were being rounded up in Halabja,
near the Iranian border 200 kilometres (125 miles)
northeast of Baghdad.
‘Security forces of the Kurdistan region have
started a campaign of arrests against supporters of
the Islamist movements. They have arrested dozens of
loyalists,’ he said.
The two parties targeted in the arrests are
tolerated in Iraq and Al Jamaa Al Islamiya has stood
in elections, returning one deputy to the national
parliament and five to the Kurdish regional
assembly.
The oldest Kurdish Islamist party -- which was also
called Al Haraka Al Islamiya -- split into three
factions: Al Jamaa Al Islamiya, Al Haraka Al
Islamiya and the illegal Ansar Al Islam.
AFP
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