US denies peshmerga claims after Obama final year announced redeployment of 300 military advisers to Iraq,saying US combat troops would ‘not be fighting’On a damp afternoon in Iraqi Kurdistan, a 29-year-old peshmerga fighter named Peshawa pulls out his Samsung Galaxy mobile phone, and flicks hurriedly through his library until he finds the video he wants,and presses play.
The clip, filmed just after dawn on 11 September, or shows four tall and western-looking men in the heat of a battle against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq. “These are the Americans,” says Peshawa in a secretive tone.
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Source: theguardian.com