A few days after the storming of Abu Ghraib prison, which occurred on July 21, 2013, an Iraqi military force had cut off the main road leading to the Green Zone coming from the Karada Mariam neighborhood in central Baghdad. Meanwhile, vehicles of peshmerga forces, filled with heavy equipment, were entering the headquarters of the federal Ministry of Defense.
Until this moment, however, military leaders in Baghdad and Erbil refused to admit that peshmerga forces have gone to Baghdad to take part in a security operation. They only confirm that there was an agreement between them which was not implemented.
