Operation Nomad Shadow is the name of aclassifiedUnited Statesmilitary operation that may have begun in November 2007 to shareintelligence information between the U.S. and theRepublic of Turkey. The operation may involve only a few dozen U.S. servicemembers at any one time plus an unknown number of Turkish officials. A U.S. military-affiliated newspaper claimed the operation "reportedly provided Turkey with intelligence onKurdishseparatists ahead of Turkey’s incursion into northernIraq in December 2007."[1]
U.S. servicemembers whodeployed in support of Operation Nomad Shadow may have also had been concurrently attached to supportOperation Iraqi Freedom.[2]
In 2013 the armed KurdishguerrillamovementPKK claimed to have shot down a U.S. drone patrolling theIraq-Turkey border as part of the program.[3]
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