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5 gunmen who wounded a Peshmerga in Halabjja killed, 1 on the run
[RUDAW.NET] Five gunnies who maimed a Peshmerga in Halabja and maimed him lightly, were killed on Sunday while one remains on the run.Acting Halabja Governor Ali Othman told Rudaw that the identities of the gunnies, who attacked the Peshmerga on Saturday, still are no definitely known. "Three of the gunnies were killed and another two blew themselves up. The search is on for a sixth man," Othman said. A Peshmerga soldier who was on holiday and was spending some time off with three of his friends in the mountainous areas of the Giryana village, 20 km northeast of Halabja, was injured slightly by the gunnies on Saturday afternoon. Mariwan Mohammad, the maimed Peshmerga, had said that he and his friends had seen five gunnies near a pond in Halabja and had called the security forces. "Then, the gunnies saw us and fired on us and I was maimed," Amin earlier told Rudaw from his hospital bed. The identity of gunnies remains unclear as of now. But one local official from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said they belong to the so-called 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.... Halabja is a stronghold of the PUK, and the party maintains influence among the security forces. "It has been sometime since we had received information that there are a number of ISIS forces of Evil in the area of Giryana village of Halabja," Ahmad Qadafari, the head of the PUK’s branch in Halabja told Rudaw earlier in the day, before the announcement from the Halabja governor. The maimed Peshmerga said the attackers "were speaking in Kurdish and one of them had a long beard," indicating that they could have been Islamic murderous Moslems. Qadafari said the attackers must be from Halabja. He said that if not all of the gunnies come from the Halabja, "then certainly a number of them are, because the area has a difficult terrain, and if you are not familiar with it you cannot escape," he said, referring to the gunnies’s ability to flee after the shootings, before being tracked down. In late August, Kurdish security forces rubbed out four gunnies identified as ISIS forces of Evil in the Azhdagh mountain in Sangaw in southern Sulaimani. Kurdish Asayish besiege terrorist group in Halabja Halabja – (IraqiNews.com) Kurdish Asayish forces announced on Sunday besieging a terrorist group in Halabja province. Media organizations belonging to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan reported, “Asayish forces are besieging a group of terrorists, southeast of Halabja province,” adding that, “Security authorities monitored the movements of this group and provided Asayish with the needed information to arrest it.” Kurdish Asayish forces also assured the citizens that they will keep them safe and protect them against any attacks. Asayish is the Kurdish security organization and primary intelligence agency operating in the Kurdistan region in Iraq since September 1993. Posted by: Fred 2016-11-21 |
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