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Iran Offers Security Help to Visiting Iraqi Prime Minister
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?r=279&ctl=13E8998:A6F02AD83191E160D2DCD3D4C153C2139574F7DCC14957C0 Iranian president
says improved security in Iraq will enhance stability, security
throughout region





Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, with Iraqi PM Nouri
Al-Maliki in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he has offered to help Iraq
bring its insurgency under control.

At a news conference in Tehran with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki, Mr. Ahmadinejad said improved security in Iraq will
enhance stability throughout the region.

Mr. Maliki met the Iranian president Tuesday at the beginning of a
two-day visit.

U.S. officials have said Iran is not doing enough to stop the flow of
militants into Iraq.

In Baghdad, Iraqi police say a car bomb explosion killed at least six
people Tuesday in an upscale district of the city.

Gunmen killed four Kurds in the northern city of Mosul.

A court in Baghdad is hearing Kurdish witnesses in the trial of former
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and six co-defendants, accused of ordering
the death of tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurds during the 1980s.

At the trial Tuesday, one Kurdish villager told of his escape as
Saddam's campaign against Kurds began in February 1988. His mother and
sisters disappeared and, when he returned to his village, he found
they had been buried in a mass grave.

Saddam repeated his contention today that the military offensive -
known as the Anfal campaign - was aimed at Kurdish insurgents who had
fought with Iran and against Iraq. He called Kurdish guerrillas
Iranians and Zionists.

Before the judge switched off his microphone, Saddam shouted that any
country faced with an insurgency would deploy the army to defeat it.

Prosecutors say the Anfal offensive killed 180,000 civilians. Some
information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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