Wednesday, April 04, 2007
PUK, KDP offices in Mosul threatened
Politics, Security
(VOI) - Ninewa police said on Tuesday it had received phone calls from local residents about warnings from unknown armed groups to evacuate their homes near the Kurdish parties' offices after they threatened to blow up the offices in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. "Ninewa police operations room received today scores of phone calls from people residing near the Kurdish parties' offices in Mosul, where they confirmed they had received warnings to evacuate their homes," Brigadier Abdul-Karim al-Juburi, director of the operations room, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
He said, "the police command took precautions and intensively deployed police patrols to foil any attempt to violate security in Mosul. "Earlier, local residents told VOI "masked gunmen told residents this afternoon to leave our homes (near the Kurdish parties' offices) because they intend to blow the offices up." "We left our homes after we realized that the threats were serious," a local resident told VOI over the phone. There are many offices for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by Iraqi President Jalal al-Talabani, and for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, led by Iraq's Kurdistan President Massoud al-Barzani.
Labels: Brigadier Abdul-Karim al-Juburi, KDP, Mosul, PUK
