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Kurdish Military force heads for Samara to
prevent infiltrators
12.2.2008
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February 12, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq',-- A
military force headed for Samarra, Salah el-Din, to
prevent armed infiltrators from Mosul, which will
witness a wide-scale security operation, the
official spokesman for the Peshmerga fighters said.
"Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered to
send the first battalion of the 3rd brigade of the
4th division, which is stationed in Touz Khormato,
to Samarra," Jabar Yawer said to reporters.
"The army forces will head to the city to prevent
armed infiltrators, who may escape to it from Mosul,
which will witness a wide-scale security operation
against al-Qaeda gunmen," he explained. |
Kurdistan Military force (Peshmerga) |
"They will also contribute in protecting the Turkish
company working on the reconstruction of the two
Askarian shrines," Yawer added.
On Monday, the first battalion of the 3rd brigade of
the Iraqi army which was based in Sulaimaniyah
arrived in Samara to establish and control security
in the city.
"The force which consists of 700 soldiers arrived in
southern Samara on late Monday under Nuri al-Maliki’s
command." the commander of the battalion,www.ekurd.net
colonel Muhammad Rostam.
He said that the mission of the force from
Sulaimaniyah to Samara to achieve security and
stability in the city as they already shared in
establishing security in Duz district, Kirkuk.
The Samarra shrine, which contains tombs of Imams
Ali al-Hadi and Hassan al-Aaskari, figures deemed
holy by Shiite Muslims, came under a bombing attack
that destroyed its two minarets last June.
The city of Mosul witnesses preparations to launch a
military operation, described by the government as
"crucial" against armed groups. Mosul is outside the
autonomous region of Kurdistan, with a minority of
Kurds.
Samarra, Salah el-Din province, is 120 km north of
Baghdad
VOI
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