{"id":19968,"date":"2010-06-22T08:57:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T06:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=19968"},"modified":"2010-06-22T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T06:57:13","slug":"in-kurdistan-sic-mossad-is-is-an-embarassment-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/06\/22\/in-kurdistan-sic-mossad-is-is-an-embarassment-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"In Kurdistan (sic.), Mossad is is an embarassment to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>by G. M.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Resumed after the war which drove Saddam Hussein out of power in Baghdad in\u00a02003, the secret security co-operation between Israelis and Iraqi Kurds was\u00a0put to a crushing stop these last few months, under Washington&#8217;s influence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After Jalal Talabani&#8217;s (the Kurdish leader) nomination to the presidency of<\/div>\n<div>the Republic of Iraq in spring 2005, &#8220;a conflict of interest appeared<\/div>\n<div>between the two allies&#8221;, estimates an expert in Middle East safety. &#8220;In<\/div>\n<div>order not to be criticized by the Shiites and the sunnites,&#8221; he adds, &#8220;the<\/div>\n<div>new Head of the State Talabani could not allow the further development of a<\/div>\n<div>relationship that is condemned by the immense majority of the Iraqis. The<\/div>\n<div>Kurdish two-sided-game was stopped.&#8221; Since then, some of the Israeli agents<\/div>\n<div>are believed to have left the north of Iraq. Apparently, there would remain<\/div>\n<div>only one hundred of them, and Israeli businessmen practically only act<\/div>\n<div>through Kurdish or Jordanian intermediaries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The conflict had however helped to tighten the partnership between Mossad,<\/div>\n<div>the Israeli secret service, and the Kurdish leadership, who combined their<\/div>\n<div>effort in thirty years struggle against the nationalist regime of Baghdad.<\/div>\n<div>Israel wanted to support the Kurds&#8217; federal aspirations and contain the<\/div>\n<div>Iranian influence over Iraq. &#8220;After the hostilities, the Israelis, anxious<\/div>\n<div>to see thousands of so-called Iranian pilgrims entering Iraq, tried in vain<\/div>\n<div>to convince the Americans to close the border between Iran and Iraq&#8221;,<\/div>\n<div>explains Patrick Clawson, deputy manager of the American research center<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The Washington Institute for Near East Policy&#8221;. But the United States,<\/div>\n<div>willing to preserve their relationship with their Iraqi Shiites allies,<\/div>\n<div>refused to act.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>The Israelis then decided to take matters in their own hand. In Erbil and <\/strong><strong>Souleymanieh, Israeli instructors, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">often disguised as businessmen<\/span>, were <\/strong><strong>charged to improve the training of the pechmergas, the Kurdish militiamen. <\/strong><strong>Beginning of 2004, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">approximately 1,200 agents either from Mossad or from the\u00a0Israeli military intelligence operated in Kurdistan<\/span><\/span>, according to French<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>military estimates. Their mission was to set up sufficiently strong Kurdish <\/strong><strong>commandos <\/strong>that could effectively counter the Shiites militia in the South of\u00a0Iraq (that are more or less manipulated by Teheran), in particular that of\u00a0the troublemaker Moqtada Al-Sadr. The Kurdish leaders returned the favor by\u00a0making positive declarations. Last 6 June, Massoud Barzani, of the\u00a0democratic Party of Kurdistan, estimated that a relation with Israel &#8220;is not\u00a0a crime since the majority of the Arab countries maintain the relationship&#8221;\u00a0with the Hebrew State.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Kurdistan&#8217; mountains have always been filled with spies.<\/strong> <strong>&#8220;The presence of\u00a0many people in this area, autonomous since 1991, makes it possible to the\u00a0Israelis to recruit agents which will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">infiltrate other organizations<\/span>&#8220;<\/strong>,\u00a0declared <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">the former boss of a European intelligence service.<\/span><\/strong> Today, the\u00a0Kurdish priority to infiltrate the new Iraqi army, directed by one of their\u00a0own, serves the Israeli interests. Through its alliance with the Iraqi\u00a0Kurds, the Hebrew State has reinforced its monitoring on Iran and Syria, its\u00a0two great enemies in the Middle East. But Israeli actions ended up\u00a0disturbing Washington. &#8220;We&#8217;ve received strong pressure from Washington to\u00a0stop our operations with the Kurds&#8221;, said an Israeli sent to Erbil <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>under\u00a0cover of being a student<\/strong><\/span>. &#8220;the Americans do not agree any more with the\u00a0Israeli plans&#8221;, he affirms. Washington does not seem to tolerate anymore\u00a0this presence that threathens its interests.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Le Figaro International, 28 Sept 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by G. M. Resumed after the war which drove Saddam Hussein out of power in Baghdad in\u00a02003, the secret security co-operation between Israelis and Iraqi Kurds was\u00a0put to a crushing stop these last few months, under Washington&#8217;s influence. After Jalal Talabani&#8217;s (the Kurdish leader) nomination to the presidency of the Republic of Iraq in spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":782328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,43,148,56,89,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_","category-iraq","category-israel","category-syria","category-turkey","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}