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Iraq
Two ISIS leaders killed by own bomb
2015-07-18
[Rudaw] A Peshmerga official says that a roadside landmine previously planted by 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....
on the Mekhmour front was triggered by an ISIS convoy early Thursday, killing two leaders of the terrorist group.

"A mine had been planted by ISIS troops in previous battles in the village of Kharbadan to target the Peshmerga, the vise versa happened, killing two of the group's local leaders on the front," Ali Hussain, commander of the Mekhmour front told Rudaw.

He added: "One of the slain Emirs [Leader] was the group's administrator in the area named Abu Malik, and the other one named Abu abdul-Aziz."

The Peshmerga commander said the bomb went off at a time when several convoys of ISIS were passing by on the road.

Earlier this month, a wave of attacks from the US-led coalition targeted ISIS bases on the Mekhmour front-lines, southeast of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
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Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Hoisted as it were, on his own petard.

Guns don't kill people le

But mines kill ships
Posted by: Shipman   2015-07-18 18:08  

#1  Apparently the old adage that "a mine has no friends" still has merit...
Posted by: Pappy   2015-07-18 13:22  

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