Saturday, September 22, 2007

Kurds denounce U.S. Detention of Iranian



McClatchy Newspapers

By Jay Price and Taha

September 21, 2007
SULAIMANIYAH —

U.S. troops arrested an Iranian man during an early morning raid on a hotel in this northern Iraqi city Thursday and accused him of helping to smuggle a deadly type of roadside bomb into Iraq. But the Kurdistan Regional Government in a statement called the arrest "illegitimate," said the man was a member of a trade delegation that had been invited to Sulaimaniyah by the local government and demanded that he be released. Full Text

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