Fighting Erupts Among Islamic Groups In Kurdistan 

Iraq report
By: David Nissman
24 August 2001, Volume  4, Number  26

Clashes took place between the Islamic Group and the Islamic Unity Movement of 
Kurdistan (IUMK) at the beginning of August, according to the Sulaymaniyah 
newspaper "Hawlati" on 5 August. An official of the Al-Sulaymaniyah Center for the 
Islamic Group said that after several incidents "we felt that there is a hand that wants
to destroy the security of the region and create hostility and fighting. As a result of
subsequent clashes, the IUMK withdrew to Halabcha and Tawila, and the region
is quiet." "Hawlati" also reports of tension between the PUK and the IUMK. The
PUK has demanded that one of the IUMK's members be turned over to them for
trial and investigation. 
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