15 wanted men nabbed in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A joint U.S.-Iraqi force on Monday arrested 15 wanted men in Kirkuk province, according to a local police chief. “During a search raid on seven villages in al-Rashad and al-Riyadh districts (35 km southwest of Kirkuk), a joint U.S.-Iraqi force arrested 15 persons, including wanted men and members of al-Naqshabandiya group,” Brig. Sarhad Qadir told IraqiNews.com news agency. 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 “occupying forces.” Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 northeast of Baghdad. SS (P) 1