6,000 Kurdish fighters to guard Iraq oil installations

The Iraqi government will soon dispatch about 6,000 former Kurdish guerrillas to protect electric and oil infrastructure from insurgents attacks, a security official said yesterday.

“A brigade of 6,000 peshmerga will be sent to an area southwest of Kirkuk to protect electric generators between Kirkuk and Baiji,” Brigadier General Jabbar Yawar, a spokesman for the Kurdish Regional Government security force said.