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Twilight News / The head of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, the regional authorities will not hesitate "to strike terrorists anywhere," including Syria, stressing at the same time not implicate the Kurds in the Syrian conflict.
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In his first direct comments on the attack on Arbil last month, Barzani said in an interview with AFP, seen by "Twilight News", that this attack was not the only "Before I got many attacks but aborted before or during the implementation of the execution."
He said in response to a question about the possibility of hitting those involved in the attack, and specifically in Syria, "We will not hesitate to strike to criminals, terrorists anywhere," stressing that "it can not be terrorists can establish a base in Kurdistan."
In September last year killed seven security elements Kurds in suicide bombings targeted Security Directorate "brave" the center of Erbil (350 km) north of Baghdad, in the first attack of its kind since May 2007 when a truck bomb targeted the headquarters itself in an attack that killed 14 people.
The security services announced in the Kurdistan region on Saturday the arrest of the cell associated with the attack, saying they had come from abroad, in a possible reference to neighboring Syria.
The organization said "the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria," the pro-al Qaeda adopted for the attack, saying it was in response to the threats Barzani fighting the jihadi groups as well as the Kurds in Syria.
Barzani stressed that "it is our duty to protect the Kurds, wherever they are if that we can," he said, adding that the Peshmerga forces in the past has trained young Syrian Kurds in order to protect their areas from insurgent attacks in Syria.
He explained, "This is true, been training a number of young people but actually is not to engage in war," he said, adding at the same time, "we have seen is that the Kurds should stand at the same distance so as not to Aortoa the Kurdish people in the war-camel which they have not sentences."
Took place in the last period of violent clashes between jihadist groups and Kurds in large areas of northern Syria, where he managed the Kurds who have declared "clarion year" of the expulsion of Islamist fighters from a number of areas.
And that reports indicated that Syria's Kurds seek to declare an independent area in the north of the country, said the President of the Kurdistan region, "the decision is up to the Kurds in Syria and we did not hear from them any desire or intention to declare independence in that part."
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