Nomad Shadow
Operation Nomad Shadow is the name of a classified United States military operation that may have begun in November 2007 to share intelligence information between the U.S. and the Republic of Turkey. The operation may involve only a few dozen U.S. servicemembers at any one time plus an unknown number of Turkish officials. A U.S. military-affiliated newspaper claimed the operation "reportedly provided Turkey with intelligence on Kurdish separatists ahead of Turkey’s incursion into northern Iraq in December 2007."[1]
U.S. servicemembers who deployed in support of Operation Nomad Shadow may have also had been concurrently attached to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.[2]
In 2013 the armed Kurdish guerrilla movement PKK claimed to have shot down a U.S. drone patrolling the Iraq-Turkey border as part of the program.[3]
Location
[edit]- Turkey
- Northern Iraq (north of the 36th parallel north)[4]
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ "DOD officials expand eligibility for expeditionary medal". Air Force News Service. 2009-01-05. Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
- ^ "U.S. military drone surveillance is expanding to hot spots beyond declared combat zones."
- ^ "Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary (GWOT-E) Medal Approved Areas of Eligibility (AOE)" (PDF). Department of Defense. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
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