U.S. brands al-Qaida Kurdish Battalions ‘terrorist’

The Daily Star
January 5, 2012

The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it had named the al-Qaida Kurdish Battalions (AQKB), which operates along the Iran-Iraq border and has attacked Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government offices, as a specially designated global terrorist entity.

The department said the decision freezes any assets AQKB holds under U.S. jurisdiction and bars U.S. persons from carrying out transactions with it, a step designed to help reduce the flow of financial or other assistance to the group.

In a written statement, the State Department said that AQKB was established in 2007 from the remnants of other Kurdish “terrorist organizations” and has sworn allegiance to militant groups including al Qaeda and al Qaeda in Iraq.

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This article was posted: Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 12:55 pm

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