6 al-Naqshabandiya group members arrested in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Joint security forces on Wednesday arrested six members of the so-called “al-Naqshabandiya group” in the southwest of Kirkuk, according to the local police chief. “A joint force of police and army personnel, backed by U.S. troops, launched a security raid on the wee small hours of Wednesday (April 29) in Atshan, al-Bu Sahr, Kabouma villages in al-Huwaiyja, southwest of Kirkuk,” Brig. Sarhad Qader 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 occupation forces. Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SH (S) 1