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Kurdish Peshmerga finish military training in Germany
2015-06-28
With thanks to Germany for stepping forward:
[Rudaw] Dusseldorf, GERMANY--A group of Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers finished two weeks of training on anti-tank weapons in Germany on Friday and further training will continue in the Kurdistan Region, a German defense official told Rudaw.

The Peshmerga and a group of Iraqi soldiers were trained on Milan anti-tank missiles at a military camp in Hammelburg in southern of Germany, said the German official.

Commenting on a statement by the German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen last week who said that Germany was training Yezidi fighters, the defense official told Rudaw that they had not been tasked with such training yet.

German military advisors continue working with the Kurdish Peshmerga at a training camp set up by the coalition forces near Erbil last year.

Kurdish authorities have praised the effectiveness of Milan anti-tank missiles provided by Germany in their fight against 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....
 (ISIS).
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  @#2: Prussia and Saxony now 'occupied' territories? BDS for Poland?
Posted by: borgboy   2015-06-28 17:33  

#2  ...well, they lost a lot of that culture when Prussia and Saxony got ripped from the family. Bavaria and the Rhineland states never really had that martial thing deep in their being other than spiffy uniforms.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-06-28 08:19  

#1  Its very nice of the Kurds to show the Germans how to fight.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-06-28 07:27  

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