The fingerprints of the Mossad trained Kurdish Commando units are all over the assassination operation of the Assyrian Iraqi Christian leader of the Syriac Independent Unified Movement (SIUM) Yeshoh Majid Hedaya in Mosul city, North Iraq on Nov 23, 2006.
A former Israeli intelligence officer acknowledged that since late last year Israel has been training Kurdish commando units to operate in the same manner and with the same effectiveness as Israel’s most secretive commando units the Mistaravim. The initial goal of the Israeli assistance to the Kurds, the former officer said, was to allow them to do what American commando units had been unable to do—penetrate, gather intelligence on, and then kill off undesirable political and religious Iraqi leadership.
According to several Iraqi sources, who wish to remain anonymous for fear for their lives, such a political murder of Hedaya serves only the interests of the KDP, the party of the Barzani clan. The motivation is that the KDP tries with all means to annex the four Assyrian districts to the Kurdish autonomous region, in order to extend it's geographic boundaries
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. Israel’s immediate goal is to build up the Kurdish commando units to balance the militias or any of those groups which would be hostile to the kind of order in Iraq that Israel would like to see.
The former senior intelligence official said. “Of course, if a fanatic Sunni Baathist militia took control, one as hostile to Israel as Saddam Hussein was - Israel would unleash the Kurds on it, too.” The Kurdish armed forces, known as the Peshmerga, number an estimated seventy-five thousand troops, a total that far exceeds the known Sunni and Shiite militias.
Israeli presence in Kurdistan and alleged encouragement of Kurdish ambitions to create an independent Kurdistan is not new. Throughout the nineteen-sixties and seventies, Israel actively supported a Kurdish rebellion against Iraq, as part of its strategic policy of seeking alliances with non-Arabs in the Middle East. In the hope of maybe one-day opening the pipelines that goes from Mosul to Haifa.
