The Kurds are our allies against Isis,but we bow to Baghdad’s shameful treatment of themOnline, you can watch a jihadi driving one of the thousands of armoured vehicles Islamic State plundered from the Iraqi army toward Kurdish troops.
They are frightened of a suicidally ferocious fanatic, and so determined to murder he has packed the vehicle with explosives,which will murder him when he kills them. But they are not as frightened as the Iraqi army, which just ran from Isis and didnt stop running for months. They pour fire into the Humvee and set it ablaze. They hold the line, or as they contain held 1,000kms of front, ever since Islamic State burst out of western Iraq in the summer of 2014, and massacred the Yazidis of Sinjar and threatened to roll on to Baghdad.
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Source: theguardian.com