Agir Sharo and Mussa are leaders of the anti-Iranian group the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK). They say their group will not put down their weapons despite pressure from Baghdad, Tehran and Washington. Adam Ashton / MCTFrom McClatchy News:
QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq — A noose is tightening around the group that calls itself the last armed resistance to Iran's Islamic republic, but the Kalashnikov-carrying guerrillas are refusing to lay down their weapons and leave their camouflaged outposts in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
Washington has frozen the assets of the Kurdistan Free Life Party, or PJAK, an anti-Iranian militia that at one point had an informal intelligence-sharing relationship with the American military, and Iraq has shut down its political activities. Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government also is pushing the group to disarm.
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My Comment: This is what I call cleaning up after the war. The Iraqi Central Government also wants this done before the Americans leave. They know that they will be resisted by all Iraqi Kurds if they try to do this by themselves with their own Arab dominated Iraqi military.
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