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| British builder fighting ISIS says untrained western volunteers are winning the war against 'cowardly' radicals who prefer to terrorise women and children |
| 2016-08-21 |
| [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A British soldier who who sold his house to go abroad and fight ISIS has revealed how 'sometimes farcical' volunteers are still beating 'cowardly' gunnies on the frontline. Tim Locks had no military training but left his life in London to go to Kurdistan and fight after being sickened by the brutal massacres of ISIS in Sinjar, Kurdistan, in 2014. More than 5,000 people were killed when ISIS launched the brutal attack on a Kurdish area of Northern Iraq, and Mr Locks decided to take action. Within six months, Mr Locks, a former public schoolboy, had sold his house and chosen to abandon his construction company to go and fight ISIS in Kurdistan. 'Selling your house seems like a big decision but I had made up my mind what I wanted to do and I knew that I might not need it because there was a good chance I wouldn't come back,' he told MailOnline. Mr Locks had spoken to other westerners who wanted to do the same thing as he did and even gave someone he met £4,500 so he could meet him and they could go to the frontline together. He booked a close protection course in Europe, which offered basic firearms training. 'It was firearms 101 but I had to do it in Europe because of the firearms laws in the UK,' he said. He armed himself with body armour, medical supplies and food that he could take with him, then set off to meet his online friend Rob, unsure if he would arrive. They got a taxi to meet resistance fighters in Dahuk, Kurdistan, where they helped him buy an AK-47 for £700 and a Glock handgun for £1,540 on arrival. Westerners seen flocking to battle Islamic State while they still can [IsraelTimes] As jihadis lose ground and morph into traditional terror group, frontline volunteers note uptick in Americans and others looking to join fight while there still is one. Louis Park, a 26-year-old Texan Christian who returned to Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region for a second stint with local anti-IS forces in June, has embedded with the Dwekh Nawsha, an Assyrian Christian militia working with US-backed Kurdish peshmerga forces to protect the towns of Telskuf and nearby Baqufa, around 20 miles (30 kilometers) north of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... "I’m getting inquiries from all around the world -- 60 or 70 since I’ve been back," he said in a phone interview from close to the Baqufa frontline. According to a study released last week by the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue, of the 300 or so imported muscle it tracked via social media heading to fight the IS group, more than a third are Americans. The fighters are motivated by various factors, including wanting to make a difference or do something meaningful in their lives, and anger over a perceived inadequate international effort to counter the IS group’s barbaric acts. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Get 'em while you can, they're going fast! |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-08-21 03:23 |