Iran is assassinating Iraqi Sunni pilots who were involved in the Iran-Iraq war, so Talabani is offering them safe haven in…Kurdistan, where some of them gassed civilians. “Iran ‘sponsors assassination’ of Sunni pilots who bombed Teheran,” from The Telegraph, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
Iran is backing a Shia insurgent campaign of systematically assassinating former elite Iraqi air force pilots as part of a covert sectarian war against Sunnis, according to senior politicians in Baghdad.
The spate of murders of pilots has prompted an intervention from Jalal Talabani, Iraq’s president, who has offered them safe haven in his native Kurdistan even though some of them were involved in dropping chemical weapons there.