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Iraq urged to probe Syrian Kurds receiving training in
Kurdistan
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A lawmaker from a leading Shiite parliamentary bloc
Hussein al-Assadi called for a probe in setting up
camps to train Syrian Kurds in Iraq's
semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan.
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July 26, 2012
BAGHDAD, Iraq,— A lawmaker from a leading
Shiite parliamentary bloc called for a probe in
setting up camps to train Syrian Kurds in Iraq's
semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, an Iraqi
official newspaper reported on Thursday.
The state-run al-Sabah newspaper quoted Hussein al-Assadi
as saying that "We called for the Council of
Ministers and the Council of Representatives
(parliament) to investigate the issue of opening
training camps for Syrian Kurds by the regional
government of Kurdistan.
"What Barzani said about the existence of
training camps to train Syrian Kurds
in the (Kurdish) region is unconstitutional and
contrary to the international norms," Assadi, a
legislator from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's
State of Law parliamentary bloc said.
"Such act is considered interference in Syria's
internal affairs," Assadi said, adding that the
Kurdish leaders in Kurdistan persist to act like an
independent state separated from Baghdad central
government.
Assadi's comments came after Massoud Barzani the
president of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
confirmed the presence of a training camp for Syrian
Kurds in Iraq's northern Kurdish region and stressed
that they will be sent to the Kurdish areas in Syria
to fill any possible "security vacuum" as the Syrian
security forces retreat.
"We have a good number of the young Kurds who fled
their cities in Syria. They have been trained,"
Barzani said in an interview with the Qatar-based
al-Jazeera satellite channel.
"The region (Kurdistan) do not want to interfere
directly in the situation in Syria, but we
militarily train those Kurdish young men who
defected from the Syrian army and resorted to
Kurdistan, so they may be able to protect their
areas in their country," he added.
On Wednesday, the directorate of Immigration of
Kurdistan's Duhok province said it has received up
to 11,000 Syrian refugees looking to flee their
country's ongoing violence.
Earlier, the Kurdish authorities said they have
prepared camps for Syrian refugees who cross the
Syria-Kurdistan border,www.ekurd.net
and that the Kurdish regional government is
cooperating with international and some local
humanitarian organizations to offer various aids to
the refugees who are mostly Kurds came from Syria's
Kurdish cities adjacent to the Iraqi Kurdistan
region.
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