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Wild Boar Stampede Crushes ISIS Fighters
By Amanda Woods
A herd of wild boars became the latest group to join the fight against ISIS — killing three jihadi barbarians during a stampede this week in Iraq, according to reports.
At least eight ISIS fighters were
taking cover among dense reeds in the al- Rashad region about 55 miles southwest of Kirkuk, preparing for a surprise strike on local anti-ISIS tribes- men when the hero boars charged them on Sunday, Newswe ek reported.
“It is likely their
movement dis- turbed a herd of wild pigs, which inhabit the area as well as the nearby corn- fields,” Sheikh Anwar al-Assi, a chief of the local Ubaid tribe and supervisor of anti- ISIS forces, told the Times of London.
Refugees attempting to flee
ISIS territory came across the mangled bodies of the three dead ISIS fighters, The Telegraph report- ed.
Brigadier Azad Jelal, the deputy head of the Kurdish intelli- gence service in Kikuk, told The Telegraph that the three fatal
victims may have been trying to defect from ISIS and were heading toward a Kurdish checkpoint, where they planned to sur- render.
But in the three days before the boars attacked, the militants exe- cuted 25 people
attempting to escape the clutches of the terror group, Assi told the Times.
“We know that a massacre took place in Hawija district through our sources,” he said. “This will not be ISIS’s last massacre against citizens.”
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