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Nine members of Ansar al-Islam were arrested for
Erbil Blast in Iraqi Kurdistan
29.5.2007 |
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May 29, 2007
Erbil, Kurdistan region (Iraq), -- Nine
members of Ansar al-Islam, a Sunni militant jihadist
group operating in the northern Iraqi region of
Kurdistan, were arrested last week on suspicion of
being behind the recent bomb attacks at Erbil and
Makhmur, a security source in the Kurdistan region
revealed on Monday.
He said that interrogations were still underway to
obtain more information on the presence of members
of the movement in Iraqi Kurdistan. The source told
AKI that "the investigations are on the verge of
identifying the person who planned the two attacks"
adding that it was probably one of the nine
arrested.
At least 14 people were killed and 87 wounded in the
attack in Erbil on 9May,
during a visit by US vice president Dick Cheney.
Three days later
at
least 45 people were killed and dozens wounded
by a suicide truck bombing in the northern Iraqi
town of Makhmur.
The local command official went on to deny reports
in local newspapers that the person who planned the
two attacks had been identified but he confirmed the
creation of an operational unit to capture terrorist
elements in the autonomous region.
"It comprises commanders of the police, the security
forces the peshmerga (Kurdistan National Guard) and
the regional guard and its scope will be to tackle
the wave of terrorism investing Kurdistan and to
stop Ansar al-Islam which from the border has been
infiltrating cities in the region."
He went on to reveal that there are "many plans for
deployment of the peshmerga and the regional guards
in the border areas and also for night patrols to
prevent the infiltration of terrorists who come
across the border with the rest of Iraq."
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