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Two Hashd fighters killed in Anbar drone attack
[Rudaw] Two members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) were killed in a drone attack in the Iraqi province of Anbar on Sunday, following a string of attacks against the group’s arms depots. One other was injured in the incident, according to a Sunday statement from the PMF, also known as Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic."Two unidentified drones today targeted a fixed position of Brigade 45 of Hashd al-Shaabi in the Anbar Operations Sector (15 kilometers from Iraq-Syria border), martyring two fighters of Brigade 45, injuring another and burning two vehicles," Hashd al-Shaabi’s Brigade 45, stationed in Anbar, said in the statement. The PMF published photos of the two burned vehicles, which included a truck and what appears to be a pickup, alongside the statement. Two PMF vehicles were targeted and destroyed in the district of Qaim in Anbar province after 6 PM on Sunday evening, Qaim mayor Ahmed Dlemi confirmed to Rudaw. The attack follows a host of mysterious blasts at arms depots of the Iran-backed group. On August 20, a kaboom engulfed an arms depot of the Iranian-backed PMF militia Kataib Hezbollah, "completely" destroying its weapons store at the depot. A week earlier, a massive blast rocked an arms depot at the al-Saqr military base belonging to a PMF militia in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, killing one person and injuring 13 more. Initially, negligent weapons storage in scorching Iraqi summer temperatures were blamed for the earth-shattering kabooms. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... in a meeting earlier this month, Iraq’s National Security Council banned unauthorized flights over Iraq’s airspace, indicating that ... KABOOM!... s had been to blame for the blasts. Deputy head of the PMF Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis blamed Israel for the string of attacks on August 21, claiming that the US had brought four Israeli drones from Azerbaijan to use against the PMF.
 ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...[Arabic acronym for Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... }," al-Muhandis said in a Facebook post. In a later statement on Sunday night, PMF's Operations Authority blamed Israel for the drone attack. It also stated that just one of its fighters had been killed, while another was severely injured. "The evil Israeli crows again targeted Hashd al-Shaabi within the series of Zionist attacks against Iraq, this time through drones, deep inside Iraqi territory in Anbar province [...] killing a Mujahid and injuring one more severely," the statement said. "This assault will not dissuade the forces of Hashd al-Shaabi from undertaking their national role in combatting terror, defending Iraqi land, security, and dignity, and responding to the enemy and its supporters," the PMF vowed. PMF units have various degrees of alignment with Iran. Some, such as al-Nujaba Movement and Kataib Hezbollah, are known to fight in Syria under Iranian leadership to prop up Syrian president Bashir al-Assad’s reign.
According to Iraq’s state-run news agency ...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?... NINA, an unknown drone has targeted two vehicles belonging to the 45th brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces south of al Qa’im district on the country’s border with Syria, leaving a paramilitary commander dead. The slain militiaman was identified as Abu Ali al-Dubi.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-08-26 |
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