And why is the Miami Herald publishing this?
They might as well write about it. I was in Irbil in 2010-2011. Everyone new where the OGA compounds were then. Irbil was then and likely still is a place where Mata Hari would thrive. There were two western bars in the mostly Christian city of Ankawa, which is a bedroom community of Irbil. Western contractors, some locals, and whomever else used the two waterholes. It was a obvious place for someone who needed to have an ear for conversation. We additionally left a bunch of Bradley and M1 Abrams on one of our walled in compounds up there. Lots going on there and over in Jordan.