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Ex-PUK Members to Sue Baath "Spies" - Media
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27.9.2006
Press from 26.September.2006
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Ex-PUK Members to Sue Baath "Spies"
(Awene)
Two former politburo members of the Patriotic Union
of Kurdistan, Omar Abdullah Maruf (also known as
Mulazim Omar) and Qadir Haji Ali, have pledged to
mount legal actions against Saddam Hussein-era
agents whose names have been published as having
spied on them.
The surveillance relates to the period after 1991,
when Kurdish political parties announced an amnesty
for agents linked to the Baath regime.
(Awene is a
Sulaimaniyah-based independent newspaper issued
weekly by Awene Company.)
Turkish Delegation to Arrives to Look at Kirkuk
Situation (Azzaman)
A Turkish parliamentary delegation led by Turhan
Comez has arrived in Kurdistan (northern Iraq) to
look at the situation in Kirkuk. Ankara is concerned
that Kirkuk is undergoing population changes and
that the local Turkoman people are losing out.
The delegation will visit the towns of Tal-Afar and
Tuz Khurmatu, which both have Turkoman communities,
and will submit a detailed report to the Turkish
parliament.
(London-based
Azzaman is issued daily by Saad al-Bazaz.)
Eighty-One Bodies in Eight Months
(Awene)
Iraqi police found four bodies in the town of Laylan
in southern Kirkuk province on September 24. This
brings the number of murdered people found in Kirkuk
to 81 over the last eight months.
Four of the 81 were women. All the bodies have shown
signs of torture.
(Awene is a
Sulaimaniyah-based independent newspaper issued
weekly by the Awene Company.)
Kurdish Parliament Criticises Pope
(Kurdistani Nwe)
The regional parliament of Iraqi Kurdistan has
issued a statement saying it is unhappy with the
recent remarks by Pope Benedict made about Islam.
The parliament said such comments do not serve
brotherhood, peaceful relations or positive dialogue
among religions.
(Kurdistani Nwe is a political daily issued by the
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.)
British Kill Al-Qaeda Figure in Basra
(Asharq al-Awsat)
British forces killed a senior al-Qaeda senior
figure on September 25, a UK military spokesman
said. The spokesman said Omar al-Faruq died after
the house in which he was hiding out in Basra was
surrounded by about 250 British soldiers. Al-Faruq,
accused of leading al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia, was
arrested by the Indonesian authorities in 2002. He
fled from a US detention facility at the Baghram
airbase in Afghanistan a year ago.
(London-based
Asharq al-Awsat, a pro-Saudi independent paper, is
issued daily.)
Constitutional Change Mechanism Agreed
(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed)
On September 25, speaker Mahmud al-Mashhadani told
parliament that four blocs had reached agreement on
setting up a committee to draft constitutional
amendments. The 27 members will be drawn from the
United Iraqi Alliance, the Kurdistan Alliance, the
Iraqi bloc and the Iraqi Accord Front. The Sunni
National Dialogue front rejected the plan and walked
out of the meeting where the blocs discussed the
issue, and also left the parliamentary session.
Parliament also reached an agreement on the issue of
federal regions, which should come into effect 18
months after it is formally approved, under the
terms of Article 118 of the Iraqi constitution.
(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed
is an independent daily paper.)
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