Kurdish Official Says Militants
Infiltrate Iraqi Security Forces
Jun 25, 2005
Text of report by T.E entitled "Minister of peshmerga: Documents confirm that
terrorists have infiltrated Iraqi forces, Kurdistan peshmerga forces remain
unaffected" published by Iraqi Kurdistan Islamic Union weekly newspaper Yekgirtu
on 21 June in Kurdish
It has been said that the peshmerga forces have
documents confirming the infiltration of some extreme fundamentalist groups into
the Iraqi forces. In order to know more about this subject and whether the
peshmerga forces have been affected, Hogir Gharib from the weekly Yekgirtu
interviewed Minister of Pershmerga Hamid Afandi [in the Kurdistan Democratic
Party, KDP-led government].
The minister of peshmerga said that he had a
number of documents confirming that the extreme fundamentalist groups had
infiltrated the Iraqi army and that some of the recent attacks such as the
Kirkuk suicide bombing when a policeman blew himself up during the distribution
of aids and salary to the retired police officers and in which tens were killed
and scores injured, confirm that.
The minister reaffirmed that "many other
terrorist attacks confirm that tens of terrorists are hiding among the Iraqi
forces, such as the group of peshmerga whose car broke down and went to a police
station for help, they were handed over to terrorists".
The minister of peshmerga also explained that
the peshmerga forces have not been affected by this phenomenon and that, so far,
there has been no incident suggesting that terrorists are operating among the
peshmerga. However, he mentioned that a terrorist network was discovered
recently in the Ministry of Interior and that they have been arrested. They will
be shortly tried and shown on TV.
