KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: A joint force arrested twenty members of the former Baath Party in the west and south of Kirkuk province, police sources said today.

 

The source told Aswat al-Iraq that some of the arrested are ex-military officers.

 

Earlier, following the arrest of 29 member, General Sarhat Qadir saidthat the order came from the Interior Ministry after reports that they and other terrorists "will try to shake the security stability in a number of provinces, including Kirkuk."

 

Kirkuk city lies 280 km northeast of the capital, Baghdad. 

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