[simonX]

"Ansar was fighting the secular Kurdish groups of the KDP and PUK, who were common enemies of it and Saddam."


All three, KDP, PUK and Ansar al-Islam were against the Baathist regime. There was no shortage of enemy's enemies to befriend.

Byzantine.

[Jacob Kell]

Well, the KDP, and PUK were greater enemies to the Ansar that Saddam's regime, at least at the time anyway.