Three gunmen killed on the borders between Iraq and Iran
Iraq-Iran, Politics, 4/9/2001

An official at the Baath Party in Iraq said on Sunday that three gunmen who sneaked to Iraq by the end of March in the southern part of the country near the border with Iraq were killed.

The Iraqi weekly al-Basra quoted Nouri Saleh al-Sadoun as saying that members of one formation of the 6th contingent of al-Qadeseyah forces killed the three men on March 31 near the city of al-Nashawa ( in the south) near the border with Iran.

The Iraqi weekly which gave no mention to the identity of the persons who infiltrated the border from Iran said the three persons were loaded with various types of weapons with the aim to carry out criminal acts targeting the security of sovereignty of citizens in various parts of the country.

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