Abstract
The Iraqi army launched a commando-type raid on 8 January 1966, when two brigades, supported by special forces, penetrated the Panjwin region, taking the Pesh Merga completely by surprise and having some initial success. Despite severe weather conditions and mountainous terrain, they managed to enter the town of Panjwin, a key position in the developing Kurdish supply line from Iran. Kurds boasted that government troops were surrounded by ‘Kurdish suicide squads’, while Tehran sources stated that ‘since the 8th of January, over 200 Iraqi soldiers have been killed near Panjwin’. On the 18th Iraqi troops withdrew from Panjwin and the surrounding area.
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© 1996 Edgar O’Ballance
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O’Ballance, E. (1996). More Iraqi Offensives: 1966–75. In: The Kurdish Struggle 1920–94. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377424_7
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