Naqshabandiya group member arrested in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Kirkuk’s Asayesh forces on Wednesday arrested a member of al-Naqshabandiya group in southern Kirkuk city, according to a local source. “Today, local forces captured Abdelkareem Ahmed Mohammed, a member of al-Naqshabandiya group in al-Mamdouda neighborhood, southern Kirkuk,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The source 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. SS (P)/SR 1