The Iraqi Kurds have taken delivery of three C-130 loads of small arms from Bulgaria. Without asking the Iraqi central government's permission first. The Iraqi government is not amused.
The arms are almost certainly for the use of the Kurdish independent militia (pesh merga) forces. The ones who are so effective we used their help in subduing the
This could be completely innocuous, by the way. They have probably been running low on supplies, what with living in a war zone and all. Maybe they're just buying new assault rifles for everybody, and they didn't want US-supplied "sand-jam-special" M4s. Then again, maybe they want to have their own little country, whether Turkey and Iraq like it or not.
We shall see.
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