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| Iraq |
| Islamic State drone kills two Kurdish fighters, wounds two French soldiers |
| 2016-10-13 |
| [AlAhram] A booby-trapped drone launched by 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.... group murderous Moslems killed two Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and maimed two French soldiers earlier this month north of the IS-controlled city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Kurdish and French officials said on Wednesday. The drone blew up when Peshmerga fighters tried to lift it after it crashed to the ground, Jabbar al-Yawar, secretary general of the autonomous Kurdish region's defence ministry, told Rooters. "It seems it was booby-trapped." The French newspaper Le Monde reported on Tuesday that the drone had been intercepted in flight on Oct. 2 and went kaboom!near the Kurdish and French soldiers when it hit the ground. It was unclear, Le Monde said, whether the drone was remotely detonated or carried a timed bomb. Yawar, speaking from Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, said the French soldiers had been training Kurdish fighters near the site of the drone crash near the town of Dohuk. Peshmerga forces plan to take part in a planned U.S.-backed Iraqi military offensive to oust the Islamic State group from Mosul, Iraq's second largest city and the last urban centre still under IS control in Iraq after a series of government offensives to reverse the jihadists' lightning seizure of territory in 2014. The U.S.-led coalition against IS includes French, British, Canadian and other Western military contingents. The two maimed French soldiers were immediately returned to La Belle France for medical treatment and one of them was "between life and death", according to Le Monde. It said other French soldiers were also lightly maimed by the blast but gave no details. French government front man Stephane Le Foll confirmed the injuries. "Yes. They were maimed by a drone that landed and then went kaboom!," he told news hounds after a weekly cabinet meeting. La Belle France has about 500 troops in Iraq as part of a U.S.-led coalition The numbers include special forces that have been training Kurdish Peshmerga forces. In anticipation of the offensive to dislodge them from Mosul, IS murderous Moslems have placed booby traps across the city, dug tunnels and recruited children as spies, according to Iraqi and U.S. officials. |
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