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| Iraq | |
| Kurdish-American commandos raid ISIS base near Hawija | |
| 2015-12-27 | |
| [Rudaw] Kurdish and American commandos raided 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.... (ISIS) base near Hawija Friday night, killing a number of turbans and capturing others, Kirkuk police said. Brigadier Sarhad Qadir of the Kirkuk police told Rudaw that at 11:00 pm Friday night Kurdish commandos backed by American special forces stormed an ISIS court in the town of Riyadh east of Hawija where they killed a number of turbans in the ensuing firefight. Brig. Qadir said some turbans were captured in the raid and Hussein Umair Assafi, a commander of the radical group was killed. He added that more information on the raid is expected to be released by the special operations team. It is believed the raid was to free Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers from ISIS captivity. Brig. Qadir did not say if any Peshmerga was rescued. Helicopter gunships participated in the raid and flew the commandos to the ISIS base. This is the second special commando operation against ISIS in two months. In a similar operation in October American and Kurdish special forces stormed an ISIS prison in Hawija and freed 70 hostages. One American soldier was killed by ISIS fire during the raid.
Ibrahim al-Juburi, an official in the Hawijah mayor's office before the area was taken over by IS last year said Assafi was a member of the Islamic Army from 2003 to 2010 and then of the Ansar al-Sunna Death Eater group. He pledged allegiance when IS took over in June 2014 and was made a jihadist chief in Riyadh, Juburi said. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 Just don't bring 'em to Gitmo. Congratulations - you're on the same side as Mr. Obama. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-12-27 12:16 |
| #6 ..until they implemented the 'catch and release' program. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-12-27 12:12 |
| #5 You need human intell Killing everyone robs you of the opportunity to, as pappy said, "wring them out for information" Which has been a key flaw in the Obumble terrorism campaign of drone zapping instead of snatching a combatant for a "chat" Didn't any of you guys do a "POW snatch" back in the day? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2015-12-27 11:47 |
| #4 Just don't bring 'em to Gitmo. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2015-12-27 11:10 |
| #3 they can help IED and minefield clearing |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-12-27 10:50 |
| #2 Why? After the survivors are wrung out for information, they'll get left with the Kurds, or the Kurds'll turn them over to the Syrians. They're dead in any case. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-12-27 10:09 |
| #1 killing a number of turbans and capturing others Bummer. Gotta work on that ratio. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-12-27 01:35 |