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German arms package to Peshmerga includes assault rifles, anti-tank missiles
Herzlichen Dank, Deutschland!
[Rudaw] Germany is sending thousands of assault rifles, ammunition and 200 anti-tank missiles for the Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga forces, the German Der Spiegel reported on its website.

It reported that Germany is set to deliver around 4,000 more G-36 assault rifles, six million rounds of ammunition and 200 Milan anti-tank missiles. At least five "Dingo" armored personnel carriers are also part of the package.
About bloody time. The Kurds are one of the few military groups in the region who know what the hell they're doing against ISIS...
I believe this is not the first time Germany has supplied the Kurds, despite the problems that must cause with their domestic populations of Turks and Kurds.
Germany has been very supportive of the Kurdistan Region in its fight against the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS) since August 2014 when the hard boyz attacked the Kurdish capital, Erbil.

Since then, Germany has been among the few Western countries sending direct arms supplies to the Peshmerga, instead of through the central government in Baghdad.
See?
Additional anti-tank missiles will likely be welcomed by the Peshmerga, who have been holding a very lengthy front line against ISIS.

On Wednesday, ISIS attacked the Peshmerga front in a three-pronged assault lasting 17 hours.

Weapons like the Milan missiles are especially needed by the Peshmerga to thwart suicide kabooms by ISIS that are often launched with vehicle-borne improvised bombs (VBIED), which are often armored and hard to stop small arms alone.

German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen told Germany's Bild newspaper on Friday that "the Peshmerga perfectly know how to handle weapons they get from Germany." She said they "have shown themselves as a successful and effective ground force against the barbaric ISIS."
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-21
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