Radio Free Europe
2 February 2001, Volume  4, Number  5

' Baghdad's "Al-'Iraq" of 27 January claims that "hundreds of spies working for
different foreign parties" are operating freely in Iraqi Kurdistan and are
even meeting openly with leaders. Among those singled out for mention
are PUK leader Jalal Talabani and his meetings with an Italian Solidarity
Organization that the paper says is known to be "linked to foreign
intelligence services." And the paper criticizes a meeting between Kurds
and an Iranian delegation in Bandar-I Khan. The paper says that the
Iranians involved were intelligence officers as well. (David Nissman)
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