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4 al-Naqshabandiya group members arrested

February 24, 2009 - 07:54:39

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Joint security forces on Tuesday morning arrested four members of al-Naqshabandiya group in southern Kirkuk city, according to a local police chief.

“During an early hour this morning, a joint force from the local police, the emergency police and the Multi-National Force (MNF) captured four members of al-Naqshabandiya group in al-Nasr and al-Orouba neighborhoods, southern Kirkuk,” Brig. Sarhad Qadir told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The official did not provide further details of the arrests.
Al-Naqshabandiya is a group that introduces itself as an Islamic spiritual dogmatic organization, but its ideologies changed into ones of armed struggle against the occupation forces.
Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

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