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ISIS has lost the psychological war against Kurds
2015-03-16
[RUDAW.NET] When 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) first waged its onslaught against the predominantly Kurdish town of Shingal in August, the Kurdish morale was weakened. The public nearly panicked in the face of a notoriously well-gang.

But then, as ISIS reached the gates of Erbil, its fighters were swiftly turned back by the Kurdish armed forces, known as Peshmerga, and by US air strikes on the holy warriors.
Posted by:Fred

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