Word: barzanis
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...North Korea were poised to jump across the 38th parallel, there was a similar force in the Russian part of Kurdistan, ready to jump, too. It was Russian-trained and Russian-equipped. But it wasn't Russian. It was entirely Kurdish and led by a Kurd, Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (teacher of Islam) whom the Russians turned into a general...
...Barzani's army stood poised to strike for three months. Then, after it had become amply clear that the U.S. would resist aggression in Korea and elsewhere, the Russians withdrew Barzani from the frontier. But his army still lurks just across the border, poised and ready to strike at a word from the Kremlin. U.S. military observers describe it as a first-class fighting outfit, with its own tactical air group manned by Soviet-trained Kurdish pilots...