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Kurd officials: Iran confirms has 3 Americans
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-08-01 21:21

Update at 22:25 Saturday, August 1, Beijing Time

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's state owned Arabic-language al-Alam TV station confirmed that three US citizens were arrested after crossing the border from Iraq.

The report cited a "well-informed source" in the Interior Ministry that the three Americans were detained Friday after crossing into Iran's Kurdistan province.

The report said the Americans were arrested after they refused to heed warnings from border guards.

Iraq's Kurdish regional government's envoy to Washington, Qubad Talabani, told The Associated Press the three were tourists and mistakenly crossed into Iranian territory at the border town of Ahmed Awaa.

A previous story is as follows:

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq: Iran has confirmed it detained three Americans who were in the area of the Iranian border while on a hiking trip, Kurdish officials said Saturday. The US State Department has said it was looking into the report.

The Kurdish regional government's envoy to Washington, Qubad Talabani, told The Associated Press the three were tourists are in Iranian custody. He said the Americans mistakenly crossed into Iranian territory Friday at the border town of Ahmed Awaa.

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"The Iranians said they have arrested them because they entered their land without legal permission," he said.

Iranian officials have made no comment. Iran's embassy in Baghdad was closed Saturday.

The self-ruled Kurdish region has been relatively free of the violence that plagues the rest of Iraq. Foreigners often feel freer to move around without security guards in the area, and tourists have been known to visit the scenic area.

A senior security official in Sulaimaniyah, near the Iranian border in northern Iraq's oil-rich Kurd region, said Saturday the three were last heard from after they contacted a friend saying they entered Iran by mistake and troops surrounded them. There has been no contact with them since, he said.

He also said Iranian officials have confirmed to Iraqi authorities the three were arrested.

The official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the friend they'd contacted, the fourth member of their group, was feeling sick and had stayed behind in Sulaimaniyah. No other details were available.

State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Friday the US Embassy "is aware of the report and is investigating. We are using all available means to determine the facts in this case."

US helicopters were buzzing overhead and many US Humvees had moved into the Kurdish city of Halabja to search for the Americans, said a Kurdish border force official.

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According to the security official, the missing Americans were tourists hiking near Halabja and Ahmed Awaa.

The four had traveled to Turkey, then entered the Kurdish region Tuesday through the Ibrahim Al-Khalil border point in Zakho, the official said. They visited the Kurdish cities of Irbil and Sulaimaniyah on Wednesday. The next day, three of them took a taxi to Ahmed Awaa where they told their companion that they planned to stay at a nearby resort, the official said.

The mountainous border area is a popular hiking destination and well-known for its thick growth of pistachio trees.

Halabja, 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, was the site of a chemical weapons attack ordered by Saddam Hussein in 1988 as part of a scorched-earth campaign to crush a Kurdish rebellion. An estimated 5,600 people were killed in the nerve and mustard gas attacks — the vast majority Kurds — and many still suffer the aftereffects.

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