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Three arrested over Iraqi Kurdistan attack
 [An Nahar] The authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan have tossed in the calabooseDrop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! three men allegedly involved in an attack that killed seven people last month in the autonomous region's capital Arbil, officials said on Saturday. "We were able to arrest... gunnies who have a direct relationship with the terrorist operation that targeted Arbil," the region's national security adviser, Masrur Barzani, told a news conference near Arbil. On September 29, bully boyz attacked the headquarters of the Kurdish asayesh security service in Arbil with jacket wallahs, gunfire and boom-mobiles, killing seven of its members and wounding more than 60 people. Subsequently claimed by an al-Qaeda front group, the attack was the first of its kind to hit Arbil since May 2007, when a truck bomb went kaboom!near the same headquarters, killing 14 people and wounding more than 80. In a statement claiming the attack, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant said it was in response to Kurdish region president Massud Barzani's alleged willingness to provide support to the government in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... and to Kurdish forces battling jihadists in Syria. Asayesh chief Tareq Nuri told the news conference the three arrested men -- Samir Bakr Yunis, Mohammed Khalil Qaddush and Hashem Saleh Mohammed -- were all Iraqis from the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul. While Nuri said generally that the Kurdistan region was cooperating with Iraq's federal government in fighting terrorism, he did not specify which forces made the arrests, or where they did so. According to Nuri, the men bought two cars from Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... another northern Iraqi city, and drove them to the djinn-infested Mosul area, where they were rigged with explosives. They also supplied three suicide bombers with weapons and explosives, and Yunis remotely detonated one of the boom-mobiles during the attack, Nuri said. An earlier statement from the asayesh put the number of suicide bombers at six -- two who were able to detonate explosives and four who died in festivities. The reason for the discrepancy in accounts was not immediately clear. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-13 |
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