N.Iraqi administration urges PKK to leave country

Mam Rostan, a senior security official in Massoud Barzani's regional northern Iraqi Kurdish administration, yesterday called on terrorist PKK members in the region to lay down their arms and leave the country. He said that the PKK should understand that armed violence would avail them nothing. "The PKK's armed attacks not only endanger the security of Kurds living in Turkey, but also Kurds living in Iraq," he said. Rostam's remarks came after threatening statements from leading members of the terrorist group, apparently worried by the prospect of a three-way command mechanism between Turkey, the US and Iraq in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil to fight terrorism.