At nine o’clock tonight, Goran Ahmad will pick up his 1983 Cuban AKM, kiss his wife of two days on the cheek, and take to the streets of Dibis, in Iraqi Kurdistan’s multi-ethnic Kirkuk province, until first light.
He will not be alone. Since the group calling itself the Islamic State captured the city of Mosul in June, Mr Ahmad, 25, and countless other young men like him have taken to appearing armed on street corners and roundabouts throughout the town, 58 kilometres south of the regional capital of Erbil, in a nightly show of strength and defiance.
But the IS is not their primary audience. The intimidation tactics are rather aimed at Dibis’s Sunni Arabs, who constitute roughly half the population. Mr Ahmad estimates that between 10 and 15 per cent of the Sunni Arab in town are supporters of, and possibly informants for, the group that is here known by its Arab acronym “Daesh”.
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“Our fear is not Daesh, but the people inside the city who will contact them and tell them to attack if we do not show our strength,” Mr Ahmad said. “We have seen how local Arabs helped Daesh infiltrate other cities and do not wish to see that here. We can handle an attack from outside the city. But an attack that comes from inside it as well would be very dangerous.”
Matthew Clayfield
Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.
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