Former soldiers say they fear Iraqi trainees committed war crimes with allies' weapons
Canada and its allies not only trained suspected Iraqi war criminals in 2018 — they also distributed western-made weapons and protective equipment, says a former soldier who was among the first to blow the whistle on videos that implicate the trainees in atrocities.
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![Two Canadian soldiers and two Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, who were being trained and mentored by Canadians in northern Iraq, walk up a hill near Mosul in November 2016. Four soldiers in uniform walk up a road.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7038492.1700786683!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/peshmerga.jpg)
Canada and its allies not only trained suspected Iraqi war criminals in 2018 — they also distributed western-made weapons and protective equipment, says a former soldier who was among the first to blow the whistle on videos that implicate the trainees in atrocities.