UK counter-terror forces will help train Iraqi commandos on how to crush IS

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In the coming weeks, the British will help train Iraqi commandos to hunt down other IS cells

Iraqi troops from the Golden Division train at a military airbase near Baghdad in Iraq. (

Image: Rowan Griffiths/Daily Mirror)

British counter-terrorism forces are heading to Iraq to train commandos to crush Islamic State terrorists.

They were asked to help the Iraqi elite "Golden Division" in their fight against the resurgent network.

General Abdul Wahab al-Saadi - head of Iraq's counter-terrorism service - told the Daily Mirror: "We have arranged for a new team of British counter-terrorism experts to come to help us with our training We give our blood to fight the Islamic State, we are on the front line against this threat and help protect countries like the UK.”

This follows his warning last week that his men had uncovered an IS plot to attack a public gathering in Britain. As revealed by the Daily Mirror, they have found evidence that the Islamic State in Iraq is conspiring with British plotters.

Counter-terrorism General Abdel Wahab al-Saadi meets Chris Hughes, Defense and Security Editor of the Mirror, at a military airbase near Baghdad in Iraq (

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Rowan Griffiths/Daily Mirror)

In the coming weeks, the British will help train Iraqi commandos to hunt down other IS cells.

In our disclosures on the threat to the United Kingdom, we explained that Britain is the priority target in Europe for the Islamic State, along with France, Germany and Belgium.

A security source said: 'The effort to stop attacks in the UK is a multi-agency mission involving police, military and intelligence.