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Iraq
Iraq Blast Kills Four including Peshmerga General
2015-05-13
[ALMANAR.LB] A roadside kaboom blast killed a Kurdish Peshmerga major general and three of his bodyguards in Iraq's Daquq region on Tuesday, senior officers said.

The device went kaboom! as Major General Salah Dilmani was touring the Peshmerga front against 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....
group south of the city of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Lieutenant Colonel Ismail Hamid said.

The kaboom "led to his martyrdom and that of three of his bodyguards", peshmerga Colonel Burhan Sheikha said, adding that the blast also maimed five people.

The attack took place in Atshana village near Daquq, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

The Peshmerga forces of Iraq's autonomous northern region of Kurdistan have been battling ISIL 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 on several fronts, from Iraq's northwestern borders with Syria to areas just northeast of Baghdad, near the border with Iran.

Sheikha said Dilmani was the commander of the Peshmerga 118th brigade.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Make sure it wasn't the mullah's making a point about their riots.
Posted by: 3dc   2015-05-13 14:49  

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