http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031123/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_kirkuk_blast&cid=1514&ncid=1480KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) - Three Turkish nationals were arrested on suspicion of involvement in a suicide bombing that killed five people in Iraq's nothern oil centre last week, an official of the Kurdish faction that runs the city said.
"Our militia in coordination with Kirkuk's bureau of investigation have arrested three Turks suspected of involvement in the attack," said Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) official Ramadan Rashid Muheidin.
"They had Turkish passports and satellite phones when they were arrested," he said, adding that the two had been apprehended next to the PUK offices. snip
At the time, PUK local commander Jalal Jowher accused Islamic militants from either Kurdish-based group Ansar al-Islam or Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network of being behind the bombing.
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