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Kurdistan: Al-Qaeda terrorists ambushed Kurdish
peshmerga
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May 25, 2007
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region (Iraq), --
Insurgents linked to Al-Qaeda ambushed an outpost
manned by 'peshmerga' Kurdistan government forces
(Kurdistan national guard) near the Iraqi
Kurdistan-Iran border on Friday, local officials
said.
"Clashes broke out between the peshmerga and
terrorists and a peshmerga fighter was wounded
before the gunmen fled," said Hussein Ahmed, mayor
of the northern Iraq village of Bashdar.
The fighting began when militants from the
"Kurdistan Brigades of Al-Qaeda," a Kurdish Islamist
group, ambushed the position just after midnight,
Ahmed added.
The clash took place in the autonomous Kurdish
region in northern Iraq, where officials say the
group has carried out several attacks in recent
weeks, most recently on May 14 killing two people.
Earlier this month the local government said it had
sent 1,000 peshmerga troops to the border with Iran
to prevent attacks by the Islamist insurgents.
The Kurdish autonomous region is regarded as
relatively peaceful compared with central and
southern Iraq, where attacks by Islamists and Saddam
Hussein loyalists have sparked vicious sectarian
strife between Sunni and Shiite
factions.
Turkey has threat to invade the enclave, saying it
shelters anti-Turkish Kurdish guerrillas, and Iran
periodically shells the region, most recently on
Wednesday.
AFP
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