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| Iraq |
| Peshmerga foil ISIS suicide bombers near Mosul, killing two |
| 2016-05-26 |
| [RUDAW.NET] Peshmerga forces on Wednesday foiled 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.... (ISIS) jacket wallahs who tried to infiltrate Kurdish lines of defense on the Bashik front, killing two hard boys. The would-be bombers had tried to blend in with civilians fleeing fighting in the area. "At dawn on Wednesday, two ISIS forces of Evil with boom belts tried to attack Peshmerga on the Bashik Mountain. Both of them were killed before they detonated their explosives," Hamid Afandi, commander of the Bashik front, told Rudaw. "The suicide bombers had hidden themselves among families who surrender to the Peshmerga on a daily basis. Before the attackers reached Peshmerga positions we opened fire on them, setting off their explosives and killing them both," Afandi explained. |
| Posted by:Fred |