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Baghdad: Gunmen kill 5 Kurdish soldiers 'Peshmerga'
in Iraq
19.6.2007
Rewritten by ekurd.net staff
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June
19, 2007
BAGHDAD, June 19 ,-- Gunmen killed five
Kurdish soldiers 'Peshmerga' from Iraq's northern
autonomous region of Kurdistan as they travelled to
Baghdad to join a four-month-old security crackdown
in the capital, an official said on Tuesday.
Jabar Yawir, spokesman for the Kurdish Peshmerga
militia (Kurdistan national guard), said 15 Kurdish
soldiers were wounded in the attack on Monday, which
took place near the town of Tuz Khurmato.
Kurdish soldiers in Iraq's army are drawn largely
from Kurdish Peshmerga militias. Several Kurdish
brigades have taken part in the Baghdad offensive
and the soldiers attacked were on their way to
replace units that are rotating out.
It was unclear if they were in a large convoy at the
time of the attack. Militants frequently target
Iraq's security forces.
Thousand of Kurdish Peshmerga forces are being
deployed in Iraq to support U.S. forces fighting
insurgents.
More than
2,000 Kurdish fighters 'Peshmerga'
are being deployed in
restive Diyala province to support US and Iraqi
forces fighting insurgents, a top Kurdish security
official said on June 13
U.S. says 10,000 troops in
major Iraq offensive
The U.S. military said it had launched a major
offensive against al Qaeda north of Baghdad on
Tuesday involving 10,000 soldiers, in one of the
single biggest operations against the Sunni Islamist
militant group in Iraq.
The military said in a statement that 22 militants
had been killed in the early hours of the offensive,
called Operation Arrowhead Ripper. The operation was
taking place around the city of Baquba in Diyala
province, an al Qaeda in Iraq stronghold.
The statement said approximately 10,000 soldiers,
backed up by attack helicopters, close air support
and various armored vehicles were taking part in
Operation Arrowhead Ripper.
It did not say how long the operation would last.
The U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David
Petraeus, has called al Qaeda public enemy number
one in Iraq.
Reuters
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