Fuad Hussein, pejabat senior di kantor presiden Kurdi, mengatakan pemerintah regional, salah satu sekutu paling kuat AS di Timur Tengah, belum menerima peringatan lebih dulu mengenai operasi penangkapan tersebut.
Fuad Hussein, a senior official in the Kurdish presidency, said the regional government, one of the staunchest US allies in the Middle East, had not been given advance warning about the arrest operation.