[Rudaw] An 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....
fighter who once declared that his Kurdish identity was "unimportant" was killed in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
province, ISIS social media reports said on Saturday.
The reports gave no details about the death of Abu Humam Kurdi, who often appeared in ISIS propaganda videos, threatening Kurdish leaders and promising to take over all of Iraqi Kurdistan.
"Being a Kurd has no meaning for me," Kurdi declared in one video. In another, he warned against supporting political parties in Kurdistan. He said even if his own brother joined, "I swear to God, I will cut off his head."
Kurdi had also promised ISIS leader Abubakr al-Baghdadi that he would capture all of the Kurdistan region for the radical group.
The ISIS social media reports said Kurdi had fought against the Peshmerga in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Tal Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Tal Kocher.
Kurds in modest numbers have been among the recruits joining ISIS from around the world.
The Kurdistan Region used to be fertile recruitment ground for different murderous Moslem Islamic groups, many fighting Kurdish nemesis Baghdad, Syria or other unwanted regimes in the region.
But the number of Kurdish recruits declined after the bully boyz turned their guns against the Kurdistan Region in August 2014, Peshmerga and religious officials have said.