Iraqi Kurdistan is to bolster Iraqi army and interior ministry units by providing the beleaguered security forces 32,000 of its peshmerga fighters - a little more than half the elite militia, according to Kurd officials.
The remaining thirty thousand Kurdish troops will come under the control of a planned peshmerga ministry in the regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan, said Mustafa Sayyed Qadir, deputy chief of units belonging to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK.
The move comes as the rival Kurdish administrations in Sulaimaniyah and Erbil prepare to unify. The election of Massoud Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP, as president of Iraqi Kurdistan on June 12 paved the way for the two authorities to merge.
http://www.kurdishmedia.com/news.asp?id=7124
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The Peshmerga are the best fighters in all of Iraq other then US troops. This could get quite interesting, I was sure they wouldn't do this last year because at that time the Kurds wanted to be their own seperate state. I guess they will be content with a strong form of federalism now. However, this also means it is going to get real bloodly in the Sunni triangle as tens of thousands of Kurds enter the fray.