Israel to deploy drones in north Iraq

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Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:2PM GMT

The Israeli army has stepped up its military activities in Iraq’s
autonomous Kurdistan Region and is planning to station a number of
unmanned aerial vehicles in the area in northern Iraq.

Israel plans to deploy new equipment, including six drones, in the
region in cooperation with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, a Press TV
correspondent in northern Iraq reported on Saturday.

Four of the aircraft will be stationed at the Khalidiyah airbase in
the northern oil city of Kirkuk and two others will go to the airport
in the city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh governorate.

Israeli intelligence agents and military advisers, equipped with
special transmission devices, are also being sent to Mosul to train
security forces in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani has
reportedly agreed to the concession in return for the admission of a
number of Iraqi Kurd students to Israeli universities.

Barzani gave Israel the green light to deploy military drones in
northern Iraq without gaining the approval of the Iraqi central
government in Baghdad, which has no diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv.

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