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Originally posted by BkueKanoodle: Ah, no they were not kurds, they were in kurdish territory. And Saddam still controls many parts of that area, he just can't fly ove rthem. If I'm Saddam and I want to give terrorists a place to train and materials, my first thought would be to put them in the kurdish area . Then when it gets found out, I (as Saddam) can say, "gee thats kurdish territory, wasn't me" |
I got some news for you sunshine. They were Kurds. There was an interview with a village headman from the Ansar al-Islam controlled area before the fighting started. He was speaking Kurdish. I understand practically no Kurdish but I learned a few words and sentences when I was working in Turkey many years ago and recognise the language, which is an indo-european language not related to Arabic, which the rest of Iraq speaks, or Turkish, which is an Altaic language. It has some similarities to Farsi, but not much.
In the same interview, in a PUK (Kurds now allied with the US, when they're not getting bombed in friendly fire incidents) controlled village. One of their captives was indeed an Iraqi secret service man, who had been sent by Saddam to spy on Ansar Al-Islam. Turned out to be a bad idea as Saddam had managed to send enough spies that the spies were actually trying to denounce one another.