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Eight Peshmerga troops, 3 terrorists
killed in a gun battle
6.12.2007
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December
6, 2007
Qaratapa, Khanaqin District, --
Eight Kurdish Peshmerga troops and three militant
gunmen were killed in a battle northeast of Baghdad
on Thursday, a spokesman for the Kurdish forces
said.
A terrorist group attacked the headquarter of the
1st battalion, 4th brigade from the Iraqi army in an
area to the south of Qaratapa County, Khanaqin
District.
Major-General Jabbar Yawar, spokesman for Kurdistan
Guard Forces (Peshmerga) units of Iraq's autonomous
Kurdistan region, said the fighting took place near
the town of Khanaqin.www.ekurd.net
He announced that the
clashes took place today and resulted in killing 8
Peshmergas and wounding some others. He also stated
that the clashes are still going on, whereas
Peshmerga forces killed 3 terrorists and pursuit the
others.
Khanaqin, is a Kurdish district 140 km (85 miles)
northeast of Baghdad, is in the volatile province of
Diyala, near the border with the Iraqi autonomous
Kurdistan region and Iran.
The Peshmergas, who have fought alongside U.S. and
Iraqi troops, were attacked by gunmen with small
arms and rocket-propelled grenades.
Five Peshmerga were wounded and the fighting
continued into the afternoon near the ethnically and
religiously mixed town.
No information about the identity of the gunmen was
immediately available.www.ekurd.net
Al Qaeda and other Sunni
Islamist insurgents have been pushed into Diyala and
other areas north of Baghdad since a security
crackdown began in mid-February.
Reuters | PUKmedia com
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