A Norwegian soldier at Camp Rena, shocked by Norway’s unwillingness to commit troops to eradicate the terrorists, decided to take matters into his own hands and travel to the Kurdish front line in Iraq.

 Peshmerganor’s Kurdish heritage, liberal Norwegian upbringing and military training shaped his worldview and drew him into the fight against militant Islamism. Armed only with gear he purchased himself and the name of a Kurdish contact, He journeyed into a military culture completely foreign to Westerners; where soldiers work without pay, adequate food and even ammunition. Mike Peshmerganor is a pseudonym. He escaped from Kurdistan as an infant with his family, grew up in Eastern Norway and served in Norway’s elite Telemark Battalion.