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Suicide attacker shot, killed in Iraqi
Kurdistan region
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September
30, 2010
SULAIMANIYAH,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Kurdish police in Iraq's
Kurdistan region shot and killed a suicide bomber
trying to attack a checkpoint near a military base
on Wednesday, a Kurdish security official said.
Jabbar Yawer, a Kurdish security forces spokesman,
told CNN that the incident took place near Qaladaze,
a town near the Iranian border about 80 kilometers
or nearly 50 miles north of the Kurdish city of
Sulaimaniyah. Kurdish security forces, known as the
peshmerga, manned the base.
The attacker's explosives-filled vest detonated and
wounded two policemen after he was shot dead, Yawer
said.
Hakim Qadir Hamajan, director of Sulaimaniyah’s
Security Forces, said in a press conference that the
attacker tried to infiltrate into headquarters of an
armed division, in which peshmerga troops were
waiting to get their salaries, in order to cause a
larger damage.
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Kurdish security forces (Asayish). Photo: knwe org |
“While the suspect was
surrounded by the members of Asayish [Security
Forces] and asked to surrender, he blew himself up,”
said Hamajan, in a press conference held after the
incidence in Sulaimaniyah.
Hamajan said that the bomber was ethnically Kurdish
and member of the radical Ansar al-Islam, an
offshoot of al-Qaeda, which has largely remained
practically defunct in Kurdistan since the outbreak
of the 2003 Iraq war when the US bombed its bases in
the Hawraman region of Sulaimaniyah.
The bomber was reported by some local media to have
come from Iran. Ansar al-Islam’s leader, Mullah
Krekar, is now based in Norway.
The federal region of Kurdistan in the north has
been relatively stable in comparison to the rest of
Iraq where bombings, killings and kidnappings have
happened almost on a daily basis since 2003.
Ansar al-Islam group listed as a terrorist
organization by the U.S. and Iraqi Kurdistan
government KRG.
The group is also suspected in suicide bombings of
coalition forces in Iraqi Kurdistan,www.ekurd.netMullah
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".
* Terrorist attacks in Kurdistan region
of Iraq by the radical Ansar al-Islam group which believed to be linked
to Al-Qaeda:
On September 29, 2008 Mariwan
Halabjaee, the Salman Rushdie of Iraqi Kurdistan,
threatened by Mullah Krekar
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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