LONDON, June 1 (UPI) -- The head of the Iraqi Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, was injured in an Iraqi attack, it was reported Wednesday. Al-Quds al-Arabi quoted unidentified Kurdish sources in northern Iraq as saying assailants opened fire on his convoy after he left his office at noon in Erbil in northern Iraq. The sources told the independent Palestinian-owned paper Barzani was taken to a hospital with wounds to his feet.
They added violence erupted across Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, during which President Jalal "Talabani's people were accused of being behind the attack following tension in relations between the two men in recent weeks over the question of the presidency of the region."
The sources said the tension between Barzani and Talabani had stopped the Kurdish parliament from convening, adding the Kurdish legislature "has not been functioning" since after the Iraqi general elections on Jan. 30. |