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2,000 Kurdish fighters 'Peshmerga'
deployed in restive Iraq province to support US and
Iraqi forces
14.6.2007
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June
14, 2007
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan region (Iraq), --
More than 2,000 Kurdish fighters 'Peshmerga'
(Kurdistan national guard) are being deployed in
restive Diyala province to support US and Iraqi
forces fighting insurgents, a top Kurdish security
official said Wednesday.
"Four regiments of 560 peshmerga fighters will be
dispatched to Baquba in the next few days to assist
US and Iraqi forces," said Brigadier General Jabbar
Yawar, spokesman for Kurdish peshmerga force.
He said the fighters will be largely deployed north
of Baquba where there is a significant population of
Kurdish Shiites, especially in towns such as Mandeli
and Khamkin.
On Wednesday, five Kurdish Shiite policemen were
killed in Mandeli when a suicide bomber blew himself
up in the office of the town's police chief.
The deployment of peshmergas in Baquba is the first
such mission for the fighters outside the northern
Kurdish regions of Iraq where they manage the
security.
AFP
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