Iraq: Al-Sunna Guards threatens to assassinate oil officialsnote

A Kurdish extremist group calling itself “Al-Sunna Guards” is said to be threatening to assassinate senior officials of the Iraqi Oil Ministry and state-owned South Oil Company (SOC). Most officials concerned by the threats are Shiite, directly involved in administrative work or consulted by Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Al-Shahrastani in legal affairs. The following 311-word article focuses on the issue and tells what the Iraqi Interior Ministry thinks of the Al-Sunna Guards group.