Cooperation negotiations between Al-Qaeda and Kurdish PKK

Accord­ing to Al-arab news­pa­per sources revealed of nego­ti­a­tions of mil­i­tary coor­di­na­tion between “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” [Islamic State in Iraq] and the lead­ers of the Turk­ish Kur­dis­tan Work­ers Party [PKK].

The news­pa­per said that one of Al-Qaeda lead­ers in Iraq Sheikh Abu Khalil Al-Bahadli said that Al-Qaeda will pro­vides the PKK with “back­ground” fight­ers on the Iraqi north­ern front in Diyala, Mosul and Kirkuk in exchange for infor­ma­tion, intel­li­gence and also safe paths between the north­ern bor­ders weapons pro­vided by the PKK.

Al-Bahadili said that the agree­ment does not nec­es­sar­ily mean that we agree with the PKK, and he described the last Sulay­maniyah hotel bomb­ing as a start for this cooperation.