Kurds of al-Qaida organization surrendered

The official in the Kurdistani national federation, Adel Murad, said yesterday that 11 members in an extremist Kurdish group suspected to have links to al-Qaida organization surrendered themselves to the Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.

Murad, who takes Damascus as a headquarters, said in a press statement that Jawad Jamal Najib and baker Hussein Mahmoud, who are members of Ansar al-Islam ( Islam partisans), surrendered on September 21 while other nine surrendered themselves on yesterday.

Murad added that Najib cooperated with al-Qaida through smuggling Hashish from Afghanistan in 1998.