Two Iranians Arrested After Border Incident - Iraqi Minister
Posted on: Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 12:00 CDT
Text of report by Iraqi Al-Sharqiyah TV on 10 August
Iraqi Interior Minister Baqir Jabr Sulagh admitted today that two separate incidents took place along the Iraqi borders with Iran.
Addressing the Iraqi National Assembly, the minister said that in the first incident a motorcycle carrying an Iranian officer and a soldier of the border force penetrated 1 km inside the Iraqi territories. He added that the two Iranians were arrested and delivered to the concerned authorities, where they are being currently interrogated.
The Iraqi interior minister added that the other incident involves a group of persons who entered [Iraq] carrying boxes. When they were fired at, they returned from whence they came. The boxes proved to contain eight dynamite sticks.
Source: BBC Monitoring Middle East
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