Monday, August 29, 2005

IRAQ: KURDISH MILITANTS SET TO RESIST TURKISH-U.S. ATTACKS

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IRAQ: KURDISH MILITANTS SET TO RESIST TURKISH-U.S. ATTACKS

Sulaymaniyya, 29 August (AKI) - Amid reports that the United States and Turkey are preparing an attack against the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK)'s headquarters in Qindil hills of northern Iraq - an area which borders Iran and Turkey - a Kurdish leader has warned that the separatist group will put up a fight. Muhammad Fa'iq Kawalbi, president of Iraqi Kurdish party, Democratic Solution, told a Sulaymaniyya-based Kurdish newspapaer, Aso, that 'if American troops attack PKK headquarters on Qindil hills, Kurdish fighters will descend from the mountains into Iraqi and Turkish cities and lead similar operations to those conducted by terrorist groups such as [the al-Qaeda linked Kurdish group] Ansar al-Sunna.' "

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