Intelligence reports show that two men were arrested recently days before they planned to detonate suicide vests in front of the Assayish building in Akre, Duhok. It is not clear where the men were arrested before their planned attack. The Council for the Intelligence Headquarter in Erbil sent out the announcement of the men’s arrest in a press release earlier today. In the press release, it stated, the two men were linked to Al-Qaeda and its branch the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham. “One of the suicide bombers is from Aleppo, he is a Syrian who goes by the name Qatiba Ahmed Qasim Khatib, also known as Abu Qatada Muslim. Muslim was born in Aleppo in 1996 and was residing there,” the press release said. The press release added that the plan for the men was made by the ISI and sham after they men were trained alongside 9 others sent to Iraq as suicide bombers. These arrests come a little more than one month after the successful Sept. 29th attack at the General Security Building in Erbil, which 13 died, 6 of which were terrorists and 7 were Assayish forces, and more than 80 were wounded. It was the first successful attack in the Iraqi Kurdish Region in the last five years. The prospect of these attacks has raised concern among the Kurdish community in Iraq, and also the security forces, that the sectarian blood-letting ravishing Syria and Iraq could be knocking on the Iraqi Kurdish Region’s doorstep, a Region which has been relatively peaceful in recent years. Recently, following the successful attack in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdish President Massoud Barzani vowed to combat the throws of terrorism going on in Syria and Iraq, and said he would not hesitate to take action to protect Kurds. - See more at: http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/0311 ... KPWn8.dpuf