WASHINGTON The U.S. State Department welcomed Thursday the recent destruction of weapons by the PKK terrorist group in northern Iraq as part of a disarmament process. “We consider the PKK a foreign terrorist organization, so any move to lay down arms and remove that threat is a welcome step,” spokesperson Tammy Bruce said at a State Department news briefing. She was referring to video footage that showed PKK terrorists publicly burning their weapons on July 11 in the Kurdistan Regional