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| Kurdish Fighters Begin Weapons Training in Germany |
| 2014-09-29 |
| [AnNahar] The German military has begun training 32 Kurdish fighters from northern Iraq at an army school in Bavaria on handling weaponry provided by Berlin to support their battle against 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.... jihadists, officials said Sunday. The fighters, who arrived Saturday, will receive instruction on using Bundeswehr anti-tank Milan missiles, a defense ministry front man told AFP. The training will takes place at an infantry training center in the southern town of Hammelburg through Friday. German military personnel this week are also due to start training Kurdish fighters in Iraq, Der Spiegel news weekly reported Saturday. That training is expected to run until the end of November, the magazine said. Late last month Berlin announced that it was sending weapons to the Peshmerga Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq to help them fight off IS bully boyz who have seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 The Kurds appear to be a motivated fighting force. They may be the only people who can really be counted on. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-29 17:03 |
| #2 Mobility kill is what they will try for with the Milan vs M1. But against the usual "technicals" it will be quite effective. But its not what they need most. The Kurds need 1) reliable logistics, and 2) Artillery. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-09-29 16:23 |
| #1 Bundeswehr anti-tank Milan missiles? Are these to knock out the U.S. supplied tanks ISIS got from the Iraqi army when they bugged out? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-29 10:27 |