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Unidentified gunmen shoot Kurdish Peshmerga fighter dead in Kirkuk
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Unidentified button men shot a Kurdish Peshmerga fighter dead Sunday in central Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
well-informed sources told Shafaq News website.

Ali Othman Saleh, 29, was on a visit to Kirkuk when two unknown assailants shot up him in Latif Awa neighborhood in central Kirkuk, the sources said.

Saleh was maimed and later died after he had been moved to a nearby hospital, the sources added.

No group has so far grabbed credit for the attack, but 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....
(IS) Lion of Islam group, in most cases, is responsible for attacks targeting crowded areas, including markets, cafes and mosques across Iraq.

The Peshmerga are Kurdish fighters, who actively took part in the security campaigns launched to liberate Iraqi territories from turbans of Islamic State. Iraq declared that collapse of IS last December.
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-10
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