Israel Trains Kurds
Just what we need. Another secret military installation.
The Israeli newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, reports that dozens of Israeli military instructors have been dispatched into northern Iraq by Israeli security contractors and are training Kurdish fighters at a secret base. Meanwhile, Israeli construction companies are engaged in building an airport in Irbil, Hawler International Airport. The companies are (were) working in utmost secrecy.
The Israeli newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, reports that dozens of Israeli military instructors have been dispatched into northern Iraq by Israeli security contractors and are training Kurdish fighters at a secret base. Meanwhile, Israeli construction companies are engaged in building an airport in Irbil, Hawler International Airport. The companies are (were) working in utmost secrecy.
posted by Nur-al-Cubicle | 6:52 PM
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Seymour Hersh
New Yorker Sept 2004
Israeli intelligence and military operatives are now quietly at work in Kurdistan, providing training for Kurdish commando units and, most important in Israel’s view, running covert operations inside Kurdish areas of Iran and Syria. Israel feels particularly threatened by Iran, whose position in the region has been strengthened by the war. The Israeli operatives include members of the Mossad, Israel’s clandestine foreign-intelligence service, who work undercover in Kurdistan as businessmen and, in some cases, do not carry Israeli passports.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040628fa_fact
Israeli SF and intelligence units have been operating in Kurdistan since the end of the Gulf War.
Well everyone, except the Turks, have supported the Kurds at one time or another--Iran, Syria, the US, the USSR and even Saddam himself when he signed a deal with PUK against KDP.
The Kurds have declared de facto independence, selling off oil contracts and hiring the arch-enemy of the Arab states and Iran for secret training and airport construction. Couldn't they have hired the Chinese or the Brazilians? They are stoking the fires by dealing with the devil because sooner or later they will have to confront Sunni and Shi'a Arabs from a position of weakness.
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