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A peshmerga commander says Iraq needs ground troops to fully defeat ISIS.
[National Review] Black Tiger Military Base, Mala Qara Village, Iraq Less than 60 miles from Islamic Stateheld Mosul, Commander Sirwan Barzani enters a room filled with troops and maps. His Kurdish peshmerga soldiers promptly leap to their feet in deference.Commander Barzani and his troops peshmerga literally translates to those who face death are on the front line of a perilous fight against the Islamic State. This summer, he tells me in excellent English, the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq just woke up and saw [that we suddenly had] more than 1,000 kilometers of border with the most dangerous terrorist group in the world. Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-23 |
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