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Terror Networks
ISIL Forcing Children, Disabled into Suicide Cars
2017-02-25
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
s are forcing children and disabled people into explosives-laden trucks and making them drive at Iraqi security forces in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, a general from the US-led coalition has said.

The barbaric tactic, coupled with other increasingly desperate battlefield measures, is a sign the ISIS group knows defeat is inevitable, officials say.

The holy warriors have used exploding trucks, known in military circles as VBIEDs -- vehicle-borne improvised bombs -- and pronounced "Vee-Bids," to devastating effect in numerous engagements during the Mosul offensive and elsewhere in Iraq.

Speaking to AFP and other news hounds in Baghdad this week, US Air Force Brigadier General Matt Isler said the ISIS group had adopted coercive new techniques in its use of suicide boom-mobiles because the Takfiris appear to be running out of willing drivers.

"We saw people being led to a VBIED, being put in (it) and being chained in the VBIED," he said.

"We’ve seen children put in VBIEDs as drivers, people that aren’t able to walk... I don’t know if they signed up for this service."

The coalition has often seen VBIEDs depart on missions, only for their drivers to veer off course and attempt to hide behind structures.

"We see a VBIED going to its attack, going off and hiding," Isler said.

We see a party going to find the AWOL VBIED driver, we see (IS) command and control trying to figure out where their VBIED driver’s gone, we’ve seen multiple VBIED drivers going AWOL."

The coalition first saw drivers being chained into trucks when Iraqi security forces approached the Tigris river as they cleared eastern Mosul, Isler said.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Culling the herd.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-02-25 17:59  

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