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Four members of Kurdish family killed in roadside explosion in Makhmour
[Rudaw] An improvised bomb suspected to be set by 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.... (ISIS) sleeper cells in Makhmour town killed four members of a Kurdish family on Tuesday. Salim Bahram and four of his sons - Safin, Sarwar, Qasim and Mohammed - were travelling on an unpaved road to their farm in Qaraj Plains when they hit an IED on Tuesday morning. Mohammed was the only family member to survive the blast and is now being treated at an Erbil hospital. Relatives of the victims believe the bomb was set by ISIS sleeper cells, who are active in the area at night. "Security is under the control of ISIS [ISIS] during the night but they do not appear in daylight. There is no security and the [Iraqi] army has merely blocked the road. He went there to earn an income and make ends meet," Salim’s brother Hunar told Rudaw. Makhmour mayor Rizgar Mustafa told Rudaw that an Arab who accompanied the family was also injured in the earth-shattering kaboom. "I went to the scene and collected heads and hands. There is no security at all. It is all a lie," said Salim’s brother Hussein. The family regularly travelled on the road in question, Hussein added, believing the IED’s to be new. Although in Erbil province, Makhmour lies in territory disputed between Erbil and Baghdad. ISIS was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in late 2017 but it still remains active in some parts of the country, especially in disputed areas where lack of coordination between Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi Army has given the group a chance to carry out attacks, explosions and kidnappings. Related: Makhmour: 2020-07-30 Turkey launches new phase of military operation against PKK in country’s eastern province Makhmour: 2020-06-26 US State Department: 500 civilians killed in 2019 Iraq terrorist attacks Makhmour: 2020-06-25 Good afternoon Posted by: trailing wife 2020-10-24 |
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