The Scorpions Research Paper

(Tucker & Faddis 2009, pg. 44) Sadly this was also denied, but the Scorpions fighting force had millions of dollars’ worth of equipment stationed in Turkey that had never been used, due to the Scorpions never being operational and being a large failure. This equipment given to the Kurds, could have given more operational capability in order to ensure that the Kurds had necessary equipment to fend off attacks from Saddams army.
The Scorpions were to be a fighting force that was supposed to conduct Paramilitary operations prior to the invasion. This never occurred, so the Peshmerga had stepped up and took on the role of saboteurs as well as a protection force for the NILE team as well as any American who had stepped foot into Kurdistan. The Peshmerga force that were trained to conduct the deep recon operations, were trained and equipped by

They were especially effective at detecting and destroying Mukhabarat and Fedayeen agents within Northern Iraq. (Tucker & Faddis 2009, pg. 88) This came into play when the NILE team was constructing a HUMINT network where Iraqi Army officers were becoming dissidents and defecting to the North to assist in the preparation for the Invasion. The Mukhabarat had word that the NILE was located in Kurdistan and had intentions of assassinating these men or even attempt to capture them and bring them to Saddam, per his orders. (Tucker & Faddis 2009, pg. 72)
What the Mukhabarat had not planned on, was the exceptional ability of the NILE team and Peshmerga to detect their intentions as well as ability to detect them. With that, the Peshmerga and NILE team captured many Mukhabarat assassination teams