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Iraq: Kurdish paper reports continued conflict between PUK, Ansar al-Islam.
(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)
30 December; subheadings as published
A spokesperson of the Ansar al-Islam [Supporters of Islam, PIK, Kurdish: Pishtiwanani Islam le Kurdistan] Shura Council, announced, on 29 December 2002, the killing of [PIK member] Abu-Abdallah.
The statement which was published on the PIK web site, says that the news of the killing of Abu-Abdallah, which a PIK source gave to the weekly Hawlati, was true, and that they had passed it to the newspaper.
According to the available information, the person who had been killed, Abu-Abdallah, was not a Kurd but was from Syria. He held a high degree diploma in information technology and was one of the competent minds in the areas of media and party organization [of PIK].
Fighting continues
Since the fighting of 3 and 4 December between PIK and PUK [Patriotic United of Kurdistan], skirmishes have not subsided. There are reports of occasional exchange of artillery shelling between the two sides. On 23 December PIK [forces] shelled PUK trenches in Tapi Safa. It did not cause any causality. On its side, it is some days now, PUK has put the PIK-held areas under intensive artillery shelling. Initial reports about this shelling indicated the killing of ...