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Peshmerga thwart ISIS chemical weapons attack
[Rudaw] An Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) plot to use chemical bombs against Peshmerga frontlines in Makhmour was foiled, according to a Peshmerga statement. "In a bid to target Peshmerga stockades in the village of Baqirt on the Makhmour front, ISIS Before ISIS could carry out the attack, "the Peshmerga foiled the attack, and later bomb disposal teams defused the mortars," the statement said. ISIS has used chemical weapons against the Peshmerga, including on the Makhmour front, as an alternative tactic to thwart Peshmerga advances. After a suspected chemical weapons attack by ISIS on the Peshmerga in early August, tests proved that ISIS had used mustard gas against Kurdish fighters on the Gwer- Makhmour front, wounding several fighters. A Peshmerga official confirmed to Rudaw that 45 mortars were fired at Peshmerga positions in just one night. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-29 |
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