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bin Laden Kurds kill prisoners in Iraq
Posted by Firas Jatou on Tuesday, 25 September 2001, at 1:23 p.m.
United Press International September 25, 2001, Tuesday
September 25, 2001, Tuesday 12:47 AM Eastern Time
By DERK KINNANE ROELOFSMA
A Kurdish Islamic group, directed by supporters of Osama bin Laden, killed more than 20 prisoners it took Sunday, according to a rival Kurdish group.
Officials from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya told United Press International by telephone that the slain men were members of the PUK peshmerga (armed force). They had been taken prisoner in a clash with the Jund al Islam (Soldiers of Islam) near the village of Away Hamad, located close to the important town of Halabja. Some 25 PUK peshmerga (guerrillas) were killed in an ambush and more than 20 captured, then killed. On Friday the Jund kidnapped a medical doctor, Rebwar Fattah, in Halabja and took him to Biyara, the officials said.
The Jund is estimated to number between 500 and 600 Kurdish fighters and a handful of so-called Arab Afghans. Their leader is Abu Abdullah Shafii, thought to be of Egyptian or Syrian origin. Arab Afghans are militants who trained and fought in Afghanistan with Islamic groups there and have returned committed to replacing existing governments in the region with Islamic theocracies. They are supervising and training the Jund, according to the PUK.
The PUK governs a number of Kurdish areas of Northern Iraq, while the Kurdistan Democratic Party rules some others -- a situation made possible by the U.S.- and British-enforced no-fly zone over Northern Iraq, which prevents Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from using airpower to recapture the area.
Officials of both groups told UPI the Jund has been supplied and financed by bin Laden's organization, al Qaida. They say Hussein has connived at this in order to destabilize the Kurdish region through terror and coercion.
The doctrine of the Jund is like that of the Taliban. In the mountain villages they control, they have forbidden music, the display of photographs of family or friends in private as well as public, forbidden worship at the shrine of a local holy man, forbidden women to work and obliged them to wear a cloak that covers them from the top of their head to their shoes, and closed schools.
In a newsletter dated Sept.1, the Jund informed the local population:
"Your brothers and colleagues for many years are busy with preparing themselves for jihad in this area both monetarily and morally. We have achieved this task by opening training camps, Islamic education camps, and the preparation of necessary weapons for this holy purpose. After the people realize the area needs protection and the preservation of Islam, we must make a tough and holy stand against the blasphemous secularist political, social and cultural institutions. They are seeking to conquer and exploit the Muslims of Kurdistan, thus the dirty Jews and Christians seek the destruction of Islam in Kurdistan."
According to the PUK sources, the Jund al-Islam was set up at a base in Biyara, a village in the Hawraman area of Iraqi Kurdistan, after the arrival in the region of the Arab Afghans. These include Abu Abdulrahman, originally from Syria, who the PUK described as Osama bin Laden's representative in Kurdistan. Abu Abdurrahman, the sources said, escaped to Afghanistan after taking part in the 1982 Islamist rising in the Syrian city of Hama that was brutally surpressed by Syrian strongman Hafez Assad, with the loss of at least 10,000 lives.
The Jund, according to Kurdish sources, is divided into three components. One is Hamas made up of defectors from the dissolved Islamic Union Movement in Kurdistan led by Mulla Ali Abdulaziz. A second part is Tawhid, a fundamentalist group first established in Erbil, seat of the KDP government. It fled to Hawraman after being identified as the assassins last January of Franso Hariri, a prominent Christian Assyrian KDP official in Erbil.
The third faction is the Soran Battalion, consisting of the best fighters from the former IUM.
On Saturday night, according to Kurdish sources, the Jund told the population of Biyara that those who do not support and cooperate with the Jund would be considered unbelievers and killed.
In Sulaimaniya on Saturday, two other Kurdish Islamist parties, the Kurdistan Islamic Group, led by Mulla Ali Bapir, and the Independents Group, led by Sheikh Mohammad Barzinji, celebrated their reunification and described themselves as a moderate political party. Representatives of the Iranian government attended the celebration.
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United Press International September 25, 2001, Tuesday
September 25, 2001, Tuesday 12:47 AM Eastern Time
By DERK KINNANE ROELOFSMA
A Kurdish Islamic group, directed by supporters of Osama bin Laden, killed more than 20 prisoners it took Sunday, according to a rival Kurdish group.
Officials from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya told United Press International by telephone that the slain men were members of the PUK peshmerga (armed force). They had been taken prisoner in a clash with the Jund al Islam (Soldiers of Islam) near the village of Away Hamad, located close to the important town of Halabja. Some 25 PUK peshmerga (guerrillas) were killed in an ambush and more than 20 captured, then killed. On Friday the Jund kidnapped a medical doctor, Rebwar Fattah, in Halabja and took him to Biyara, the officials said.
The Jund is estimated to number between 500 and 600 Kurdish fighters and a handful of so-called Arab Afghans. Their leader is Abu Abdullah Shafii, thought to be of Egyptian or Syrian origin. Arab Afghans are militants who trained and fought in Afghanistan with Islamic groups there and have returned committed to replacing existing governments in the region with Islamic theocracies. They are supervising and training the Jund, according to the PUK.
The PUK governs a number of Kurdish areas of Northern Iraq, while the Kurdistan Democratic Party rules some others -- a situation made possible by the U.S.- and British-enforced no-fly zone over Northern Iraq, which prevents Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from using airpower to recapture the area.
Officials of both groups told UPI the Jund has been supplied and financed by bin Laden's organization, al Qaida. They say Hussein has connived at this in order to destabilize the Kurdish region through terror and coercion.
The doctrine of the Jund is like that of the Taliban. In the mountain villages they control, they have forbidden music, the display of photographs of family or friends in private as well as public, forbidden worship at the shrine of a local holy man, forbidden women to work and obliged them to wear a cloak that covers them from the top of their head to their shoes, and closed schools.
In a newsletter dated Sept.1, the Jund informed the local population:
"Your brothers and colleagues for many years are busy with preparing themselves for jihad in this area both monetarily and morally. We have achieved this task by opening training camps, Islamic education camps, and the preparation of necessary weapons for this holy purpose. After the people realize the area needs protection and the preservation of Islam, we must make a tough and holy stand against the blasphemous secularist political, social and cultural institutions. They are seeking to conquer and exploit the Muslims of Kurdistan, thus the dirty Jews and Christians seek the destruction of Islam in Kurdistan."
According to the PUK sources, the Jund al-Islam was set up at a base in Biyara, a village in the Hawraman area of Iraqi Kurdistan, after the arrival in the region of the Arab Afghans. These include Abu Abdulrahman, originally from Syria, who the PUK described as Osama bin Laden's representative in Kurdistan. Abu Abdurrahman, the sources said, escaped to Afghanistan after taking part in the 1982 Islamist rising in the Syrian city of Hama that was brutally surpressed by Syrian strongman Hafez Assad, with the loss of at least 10,000 lives.
The Jund, according to Kurdish sources, is divided into three components. One is Hamas made up of defectors from the dissolved Islamic Union Movement in Kurdistan led by Mulla Ali Abdulaziz. A second part is Tawhid, a fundamentalist group first established in Erbil, seat of the KDP government. It fled to Hawraman after being identified as the assassins last January of Franso Hariri, a prominent Christian Assyrian KDP official in Erbil.
The third faction is the Soran Battalion, consisting of the best fighters from the former IUM.
On Saturday night, according to Kurdish sources, the Jund told the population of Biyara that those who do not support and cooperate with the Jund would be considered unbelievers and killed.
In Sulaimaniya on Saturday, two other Kurdish Islamist parties, the Kurdistan Islamic Group, led by Mulla Ali Bapir, and the Independents Group, led by Sheikh Mohammad Barzinji, celebrated their reunification and described themselves as a moderate political party. Representatives of the Iranian government attended the celebration.