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Iraq Kurds deny training by Israeli
ex-soldiers
22.9.2006 |
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Erbil,
Kurdistan-Iraq, September 21, -- The Kurdish
regional government in northern Iraq on Thursday
denied a BBC report that peshmerga militiamen had
received training
from Israeli former commandos.
"This information is baseless," said the
government's chief secretary, Fuad Hassan.
"If the Peshmerga need training, they can do it
publicly with the American army. They do not need to
do it in secrecy."
On Tuesday the BBC reported that Israeli former
commandos had been training Kurdish security
personnel in Kurdistan (northern Iraq). It screened
video footage of the alleged training camp.
According to the broadcaster, the former commandos
provided the training from 2004 until 2005 when they
were tipped off by the Kurds that word of their
presence in Kurdistan (northern Iraq) had leaked
out.
Israel apparently provided the training, along with
quad bikes, communications equipment and security
fencing through security companies.
The training covered airport security, the use of
long rifles and pistols, shooting from behind doors
and barricades, and how to identify a terrorist in a
crowd, the broadcaster reported.
The BBC said the value of the training and
associated equipment might have been as high as 150
million dollars (118 million euros).
AFP
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