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Iraqi Kurdish parliament talks to Badr
brigades in Kirkuk
6.6.2006
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The
deputy speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly,
Kamal Kirkuki, told the Peyamner news agency that a
delegation from the Kurdish parliament has held
talks with the Badr Brigades in Kirkuk, the agency
reported on June 5.
The talks followed reports that scores of Badr
Brigades members had entered the city. The Badr
Brigades are the armed wing of the Supreme Council
for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, and participated
in elections in 2005 as part of the UIA.
Hundreds of militiamen belonging to the Imam
Al-Mahdi Army, which is loyal to Shi'ite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr, entered Kirkuk in April.
Kurdish groups have been concerned at the rising
number of Shi'ite militiamen in Kirkuk. Kirkuki said
the Badr Brigades told the Kurdish delegation that
"they are not enemies of Kurdistan or Kurdish armed
forces (peshmarga)," Peyamner reported.
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