Finally, info on who makes up the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps

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First through an antiwar.com blog

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P835

<snip> The Independent is reporting that the 36th battalion, composed of Iraqi Arab and Kurdish peshmerga militia , has mutinied.

They take you to today's Independent:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=516306

<snip> The battalion may have split along ethnic lines. Its soldiers were recruited from the militiamen of the Iraqi political parties which belong to the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, and about half were Kurdish soldiers, known as peshmerga. The Kurds were prepared to fight but Iraqi Arab soldiers said they had had enough. Those who refused to fight were withdrawn from the battlefield for retraining.

and to this blog:
http://ancapistan.typepad.com/unfairwitness/2004/04/chalabis_inc_in.html
<snip>
Qanbar said the ICDC unit in Fallujah includes troops loyal to two Kurdish political parties; to the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, an Iranian-backed Shiite organization; and to the INC and a rival party, the Iraqi National Accord.

and here:
http://ancapistan.typepad.com/unfairwitness/2004/04/kurdish_peshmer.html

<snip> Members of the Iraqi special forces, a unit formed by Kurdish peshmergas, walk throught the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq, Wednesday, April 7, 2004, for a joint patrol with U.S. Marines of the 2nd Battalion 1st Marine Regiment. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)


For your reference.