Either it's a fantasy, or Little Satan's intel is in tight with the Kurds.
Sounds pretty legit to me. Though Debka runs from some prescient and accurate inside information to fantasies about Russian ICBM's in the Afghan Hindu-Kush. A mixed bag - to say the least.
Debka makes up stuff that is crazy, and it makes up stuff that is plausible. That is the "mixed bag."