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Korea's Zaytun Unit, based in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil, have gone on high alert after receiving intelligence that an Iraqi resistance group has ordered terrorist strikes on the unit.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Thursday that the military received intelligence that the leadership of the Sunni resistance group Ansar al-Sunna had recently ordered its operatives to carry out car bomb attacks on the Zaytun Unit.
The JCS explained that according to the intelligence, the timing of the attack is set for around Christmas or the New Year, and Ansar al-Sunna agents appear to have infiltrated Irbil by passing through Iran.
Along with the planned attacks on the Zaytun Unit, the Ansar al-Sunna leadership has also ordered incursions on a Kurdish special forces unit in Dahuk, located along the Turkish border.
In response to the latest intelligence, the Korean unit of peacekeeping forces, mostly engineers and medics, have heightened their level of force protection, suspending off-base activities unrelated to peace and reconstruction activities and unit defense, and strictly controlling outside access to the unit.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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