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Iraqi Kurdistan: Blast hits Rania city, injuring
three children
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May
15, 2008
RANIA, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', – A bomb
exploded on Wednesday at a sports ground in the
Kurdish city of Rania, a district in Sulaimaniyah
province, close to the border with Iran, seriously
injuring three children who were playing football, a
local source told AKI.
"The explosive device [containing sticks of
dynamite] was hidden inside a plastic bag," the
source told AKI on condition of anonymity.
It is the first time there has been a dynamite
attack in the area and local security forces have
immediately launched an investigation into the
bombing.
The only terrorist group active in Iraq's northern
Kurdistan region is Ansar al-Islam,www.ekurd.net
whose
militants sometimes manage to infiltrate the area
from Iran.
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Rania city |
Mullah Krekar is the founder of radical and
Terrorist Islamist group . Krekar, whose real name
is Fateh Najmeddin Faraj has lived in Norway as a
refugee since 1991. Norwegian law however prevents
Krekar from being deported to his homeland until the
situation in Iraq improves.
In 2003, before the liberation of Iraq, the U.S.
government portrayed Krekar and his network as a
link between Al Qaeda and the government of Saddam
Hussein. The
claim, however, was never substantiated. He was
arrested several times, in Norway and abroad, and
charged with crimes ranging from terrorism to drug
smuggling, but nothing held up in court.
Ansar al-Islam group listed as a terrorist
organization by the U.S. and Iraqi Kurdistan region.
The group is also suspected in suicide bombings of
coalition forces in Iraqi Kurdistan, Krekar in one
of the most wanted in Iraqi Kurdistan region on
charges of terrorist attacks in the region.
He has come out in support of "jihad", or holy war,
in Iraq and has compared the US occupation of Iraq
to the Nazi invasion of European countries, and
insisted that Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is "a
good man".
"Osama bin Laden is a good man. I wish him a long
life. He is a good Muslim and he is against the Bush
administration," Krekar, known for his controversial
statements, told AFP in Oslo in 2006.
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* Terrorist attacks in Kurdistan region
'Iraq' by Ansar al-Islam group which believed to be linked
to Al-Qaeda:
May 14, 2008, a blast hits Rania city,
injuring three children
seriously injuring three children who were playing
football
On March 10, 2008
a Car bomb Explodes outside luxury hotel in
Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, killing one person
and wounding up to 30. Al-Qaeda
Suspected of
Sulaimaniyah Bombing
Seven Kurdish border guards
killed in Iraqi Kurdistan ambush by
Ansar al-Islam terrorist group on July 16, 2007
In May 2005 a suicide bomber
killed at least 60 people and
wounded 150 more when he blew himself
up at the office of a Kurdish party in the northern
Iraqi city of Erbil
On
May 9, 2007 a suicide truck
bomber from Ansar al-Islam kills 19, wounds 70 in
Iraqi Kurdistan's capital of Erbil, Kurdish Ansar
al-Islam terrorist group has
claimed responsibility
for the blast.
May 13 was another bloody day for the Kurds, a
suicide car bomb targeted the headquarters of the
KDP party in Makhmour city in Kurdistan region
killed at least 30 people and
wounded 115 others including the
city's mayor.
Nine members of Ansar al-Islam were arrested for
these terrorist attacks. Security forces in Iraq’s
Kurdistan autonomous region have arrested several
followers of previously tolerated Islamist parties,
accusing them of links to insurgents.
On
February 26, 2007,
Houzan Mahmoud, an international representative of
MADRE's sister organization, the Organization of
Women's Freedom in Iraq, received a death threat by
e-mail signed by Ansar al-Islam terrorist group. The
death threat, delivered via e-mail, read, "With the
permission of Great God, we will kill you either in
Iraq or in London by the middle of March, because
you are campaigning against Islam. You should be
sent to God for punishment."
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