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February 6, 2010 - Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil-Hewler, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq'
Kurdish rapper accused of
stealing €1.8m of gold
Frankfurt: The Kurdish gangster-rapper Xatar (Giwar
Hajabi) is wanted by the German police for stealing
gold, worth of 1.8 million Euro. Op 15 December 2009
a group of six men posed as tax investigators in
Ludwigsburg and seized a van with gold, tied up
their victims and fled into the forest. According to
the police the men were lead by the Kurdish rapper
Xatar. The German media says that the rapper fled
with another suspect called Kawa Homam-Ghazi to
Eastern Europe. On 23 September 2009 Xatar was
arrested in Los Angeles for breaking the nose of a
female in the playboy mansion, but later released on
bail. Rudaw net
Tolerance International
opens training course in Erbil
Erbil: A first-of-its-kind training course on
“citizens & information technology press” was opened
at the Science & Technology Academy in the city of
Erbil on Friday. The two-day event, organized by
Tolerance International with support from IREX
organization, will be attended by 40 persons from
all groups in the Iraqi societies. The training
course will include lectures and intensive training
on e-press and information technology as well as the
transfer and dissemination of information. Lecturing
in the course are a host of foreign experts like
British journalist Oliver Paul, an expert in the
Iraqi affairs, and Nelly Ahmedova, an Estonian
photojournalist. The course was inaugurated in the
presence of the Iraqi Kurdistan government’s
minister of culture, the Tolerance International
chief and the British consul in Erbil.
2 robbery gangs arrested in
Sulaimaniyah
Sulaimaniyah: Kurdish security forces arrested two
robbery gangs in central Klara district in
Sulaimaniyah, a security source said on Friday. “The
forces arrested late Thursday (Feb. 4) a
three-people gang in Shahidan neighborhood in
central Klara district, south of Sulaimaniyah,” the
source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The robbers
stole a number of vehicles and sold them in Baghdad
and other provinces,” he explained. “The Kurdish
forces arrested on Friday morning (Feb. 5) another
robbery gang in the same district,” the same source
said. “The three gangsters used to attack stores to
rob them,” he added.
$US 1700 000 allocated to
implement Article 140
In an exclusive statement to PUKmedia Correspondent,
the Lawmaker in the Iraqi Parliament from the
Kurdistan Alliance Bloc Muhsen al-Saadon said that
1700 000 allocated to compensate those who are
included with Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution
in Shingal District. Al-Saadon also said that this
allocation came due to his and the Kurdistan
Alliance efforts.
Sulaimaniyah - ‘It was an
accident not self-burning’
Sulaimaniyah: A 19 year girl was burned as the
heating tool, local Kurdish name is (Premiz),
exploded to her while she was using it at home on
Saturday in Qaladze, 135km away from northeast of
Sulaimaniyah. " Khadija A. Hasan, living in Shilana
village, was ferried out to a nearby hospital as her
body burned by Premiz explosion at home,” Jutyar
Mohammed Amen told Aknews. "The rate of her body
burn was too high and we sent her to Sulaimaniyah
main hospital after delivering first aid here,"
Jutyar said. "Figures show that the burning cases
have soared comparing with December 2009, due to
recoding 13 cases and 8 of them have transferred to
Sulaimaniyah hospital for treatments," he added. "My
sister had used Premiz to heat water for taking
shower, but it exploded to her as a result of
pumping it," Khalid said. “My sister has not
committed suicide, it was an accident not
self-burning,” aknews com
Kurdistan’s parliament
speaker meets Indian diplomat
Speaker of the Kurdistan parliament, Kamal Karkouki,
discussed with an Indian diplomat, the political
developments in the country, an official statement
said on Friday. “Karkouki received on Friday at his
office Indian ambassador’s advisor, with whom he
discussed the political developments in Iraq and in
Kurdistan as well as the coming parliamentary
elections,” said the statement received by Aswat
al-Iraq news agency. The Indian official praised the
security and stability in the region, which became a
main factor in the development and reconstruction.
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