Monday, February 12, 2007
Islamic Group of Kurdistan official arrested
Politics, Security
(VOI) A force of three Hummer vehicles raided the house of a member of the Islamic Group of Kurdistan and arrested him, an official source at the group's political bureau said on Sunday. "An unidentified armed force raided the house of Hedayet Aziz, arrested him and took him to an unknown place," Aram Qader told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). Qader said the group is contacting the government and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) to get an explanation. He said his group does not know the identity of the raiding force but eyewitnesses affirmed members of this force were speaking both Kurdish and Arabic. A security official in Sulaymaniya ruled out that the raiding force was American, telling VOI "the force seemed like the anti-terrorism squad, which belongs to the Iraqi Kurdistan region's government."
