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Kurdish Suspects Reveal International Links, Officials Say
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jul 11, 2005 12:00am |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Monday, July 11, 2005 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By JAMES GLANZ
Published: July 11, 2005
ERBIL, Iraq, July 10 - Kurdish security officials said Sunday they had arrested suspects from six different terrorist groups that they believe help form wide insurgent training and support networks inside Iraq and have links with international terrorist organizations.
The officials, including senior members of the Kurdish security police and the intelligence arm of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, say the groups, most of them previously unknown to the Kurdish authorities, appear to have ties to more established jihadist organizations like Ansar al-Sunna.
That group in turn can be traced to a collection of militants who fought United States forces in the mountains near Halabja, on the Iranian border, in the weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Abdulla Ali, the chief in Erbil of the security police, the Kurdish equivalent of the F.B.I., said Sunday that evidence also links the groups to intelligence services from neighboring countries. He declined to elaborate on that evidence, or say which countries he suspected of involvement.
The security officials said their conclusions had emerged from extensive questioning of the suspects, documentary evidence and forensic examinations of crime scenes. They would not say how many suspects had been arrested. |
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