The Great Saladin of Crusades fame was a Kurd, they are his people. Their section of Iraq was the easiest assignment, so easy that US Army assigned a Nation Guard division to occupy the area.
...”The Great Saladin of Crusades fame was a Kurd”....
Oh that’s very interesting! I didn’t know that, though I understand some of his history regarding the Crusades ,,,so that’s very interesting indeed.