The families of the Norwegian special units engaged in Iraq are at risk attacks for a possible loss of sensitive data by the Iraqi authorities. Norway, engaged with an FSK contingent (special departments) since November of the 2014 in Baghdad and with units of the Telemark battalion in Erbil, has sounded the alarm after the Defense Security Department carried out some investigations on the standard protocols for the sending troops to the field. It has been discovered that there is a high risk for the loss of possible sensitive data.
How is it possible - ask the Norwegian daily Aldrimer.no - that the Iraqis have obtained the data of the members of the special units, in theory secret?
The answer is as trivial as it is obvious. The soldiers were forced to fill out forms to obtain visas from the Iraqi authorities, with their names, date of birth and addresses. Now there are fears for the safety of family members of soldiers engaged in Iraq, potential targets of terrorists.
According to the newspaper, "the specific security protocols for the troops sent to battle and for their families would have been carried out superficially due to American pressure to have more troops in Iraq".
The Norwegian Ministry of Defense has already launched an internal investigation. Another parliamentary inquiry, "in light of serious security problems", was launched earlier this month.
Specialist workers are deployed in Bnaslava, in Erbil, in northern Iraq. In Iraqi Kurdistan, they were redeployed in addition to Germans and Norwegians, including Dutch, Italian, British, Canadian and American.
(photo: Tor Erik H. Mathiesen - Norwegian Armed Forces)
