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Al-Qaeda Iraq, PKK Negotiating Over Cooperation
A senior official in Al-Qaeda in Baghdad, Sheikh Abu Khalil Al-Bhadali, said that negotiations were underway between PKK fighters and Al-Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). The negotiations, he said, were expected to yield cooperation between the two, and that as part of this cooperation, Al-Qaeda would supply the PKK with rear deployment sites in Iraq and footholds in the northern mountains, including in Mossul, Kirkuk, and Diyala, that border on the Kurdistan region, as well as providing intelligence information. In exchange, the PKK would help Al-Qaeda fighters with arms and in crossing Iran's northern border. It should be noted that another armed Kurdish organization, the Kurdish Front in Northern Iraq, has already announced that it was joining the ISI and took responsibility for attacks in the Kurdistan region. Source: Al-Arab, Qatar, March 12, 2008
Posted at: 2008-03-12
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