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| 7 Peshmerga killed by booby trapped home in Shingal area |
| 2015-12-03 |
| [Rudaw] Seven Peshmerga were killed and one maimed by kabooms in a home in Shingal that was booby trapped by 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) forces before they pulled out of the area, a Kurdish official said. "In the village of Jidara, 25 kilometers west of Shingal city, a bomb remaining in one of the abandoned homes went kaboom!, killing seven Peshmerga and wounding one," Shingal Mayor Mahma Khalid told Rudaw by phone. In the liberation of Shingal, "we did not have such a big loss of life as we had today," he added. In mid-November, Peshmerga forces backed by US-led coalition Hundreds of bombs by disposal teams have been defused since Shingal was liberated and "they are still working hard to defuse them all," he said. |
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