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Over 20 Tons Of IEDs Defused By Peshmerga In Southern Kirkuk
That seems rather a lot...
[NRTTV] Bomb disposal teams in the Peshmerga forces have defused over 22 tons of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) which 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....
(IS) faceless myrmidons planted to slow Peshmerga advances in southern fronts of Kirkuk.

According to Peshmerga commander Fariq Mohammad, six Peshmerga forces were killed and 23 others maimed by IEDs in the villages of Bashir, Said Khalaf and Tel Rabi in southern Kirkuk.

Mohammad told NRT, "In 2015, we defused over 7,000 IEDs which were planted in barrels, containers and pots."

The IS faceless myrmidons have been known to leave IEDs and bombs behind in town and villages as they are pushed out by the security forces.

NRT has obtained documents stating that up to 182 Peshmerga forces have been killed by IEDs in the southern fronts of Kirkuk in 2015.

Peshmerga Commander Bakir Said told NRT that the former Baath Party officers who are with the faceless myrmidons have used the IEDs as tactics to slow the Peshmerga forces from advancing.

"Mostly the Baath officers, who were in the Iraqi Army [before], used bomb planting tactics which deterred Peshmerga forces from advancing," said commander Said. "I can say over 65 percent of Peshmerga [killed] and wounds were due to the IEDs."

According to Peshmerga commanders, the IEDs which IS faceless myrmidons have planted have the same shape and structure of the IEDs al-Qaeda group had made in Afghanistan.

In a written statement provided to NRT, the Combined Joint Taskforce (CJTF) said the coalition has plans to send military equipment for the Peshmerga, including large sets and mobility and counter-IED equipment.

The U.S.-led coalition forces said it had equipped Kurdish forces with over 150 military vehicles, 15 of which included mine-roller attachments, which are used to detonate mines and IEDs.

Posted by: Fred 2016-01-11
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