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Peshmerga stop ISIS suicide bomb attack north of Tal Afar
[RUDAW.NET] The Peshmerga successfully prevented an attempt by 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) jacket wallahs to destroy one of their positions north of Tal Afar on Friday, killing 3 of the bully boyz in the process. A Peshmerga commander told Rudaw that they received information ahead of an ISIS suicide kaboom involving a total of six bombers. Only one of the bombers managed to blow himself up, three were killed by the Peshmerga while the remaining two managed to escape. "The attackers carried western-made firearms, explosives belts, grenades and silent handguns. They intended to fight with these weapons and then advance closer to our positions, where they would then blow themselves up," Colonel Nawroz Mzury, the head of the Zummer and security forces in Tal Afar, told Rudaw. The Peshmerga are currently searching for the two surviving bombers. This is the third attempt of ISIS suicide bombers since Eid, the end of Ramadan. Posted by: Fred 2016-07-16 |
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