Read in
An attack on an Erbil government building by three young Kurds in the early hours of July 23 killed one person and wounded four members of the security forces. The attack not only revealed the increasing threat of homegrown terrorism in Iraq's Kurdistan region, but also laid bare a dangerous security fissure: Various forces tasked by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) with stopping these kinds of attacks do not share intelligence with each other.
Just after 7 a.m. on July 23, three young men who had said their early morning prayers that day walked up to the single police officer sitting on a chair in front of the Erbil government building, according to the closed-circuit TV (CCTV) footage released by the security forces afterward.
