Kurdistan's Elite Counterterrorism Group Takes the Fight to ISIS
Share This: “If I knew where Al-Baghdadi was, I would fly in and kill him tonight,” says Polad Talabani, the commander of Kurdistan’s Counterterrorism Group or CTG. Polad has been with CTG since its inception in 2004 and minces no words when it comes to what he thinks of ISIS. “We’ve lived here for 10,000 years, you think we’re just going to give it up to the Daesh?” he asked when interviewed by SOFREP at the CTG compound in Sulaymaniyah. Today, CTG operators are nearly indistinguishable from a Western special operations unit. They wear Multicam uniforms, carry M4 rifles, ...
Source: sofrep.com