...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) - in Kirkuk two weeks ago.
Feizullah, 42, and her husband Mohammed Shamsaddin, are both bodybuilders living in the Kurdistan neighbourhood of Kirkuk. She was at home with her four daughters when an unknown gunman attacked them in the evening of July 27.
Their nine-year-old daughter Helin told Rudaw that her father and two brothers were out of the house at the time of the attack.
"He saw that there were no men in our house. He returned with his pistol. My mother was screaming in the front yard. She believed he might be a terrorist, thinking he had come to attack all the houses. Later, she learned that he had come only to us," she said, saying her mother was shot "several times."
Feizullah was first hospitalized for six days at the Azadi hospital in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
before being sent to Sulaimani in a critical condition. A friend of Shamsaddin said she was shot nine times.
"We were at the gym with Shamsaddin and his sons about 10 pm. He received a call about what happened, and when we arrived at his house, the children were really frightened and nervous. His wife and daughter were already taken to the hospital. One man had carried out the attack," the friend, who prefers to remain anonymous, told Rudaw English on Sunday.
Brig. Gen. Kawa Hassan, Shamsaddin's stepbrother and Kirkuk’s former intelligence chief, believes that the perpetrator is an ISIS member who wanted to avenge the killing of five members of a Kirkuk sleeper cell last year.
A house owned by Shamsaddin in Kirkuk’s Dibis district was used as part of the operation to kill the ISIS members, he said.
"ISIS members are definitely responsible for the attack. I have 100 percent proof that they were spying on my brother at night so that they could kill him at home. When they came to his home, he was not there. They shot his wife instead. We know they are from outside the Dibis area. They have a lot of sleeper cells in Kirkuk," said Hassan.
Shamsaddin called on security forces in Kirkuk to find the perpetrators.
"I urge the security forces to find the murderer as quickly as possible. It is their duty to do so. What a shame to open fire at a woman and her daughters at home at 10 pm. What kind of coward would do this?" he said.
Security forces are still investigating the murder.