(VOI) -- Two gunmen believed to belong to the self-styled 'Islamic State of Iraq' were arrested in Huweija with a cart bomb and TNT explosives in their possession, a local police chief in Kirkuk said on Wednesday. "On Wednesday, Police forces in Kirkuk detained two gunmen, who belong to the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq' in al-Sina'I (Industrial) neighborhood, Huweija district (65 km southwest of Kirkuk city)," Brigadier Sarhad Qadir told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "In their possession, a cart bomb and TNT explosives were found," the brigadier noted. "The two confessed during preliminary interrogation that they were planning to target a demonstration or a march in the district," Qadir noted.
The Islamic State of Iraq is an armed organization that was set up in October 2006. Most prominent of its groups is al-Qaeda in Iraq, led by a man called Abu Omar al-Boghdadi. |