ISIS releases video allegedly showing beheading of 4 Peshmerga at site of US-Kurdish raid
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — News blogs and social media accounts affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) published on Friday a video footage allegedly of beheading four Peshmerga soldiers at the site of the US-Kurdish raid near Hawija in Kirkuk province on October 22.
ISIS's video shows gruesome beheading of four Peshmerga members held in ISIS custody. The footage begins with scenes from the joint US-Kurdish operation and is allegedly recorded at the sight of the operation.
“Islamic State militants have killed four Peshmerga members by beheading at the site of the US Special Forces operation in cooperation with the Kurdistan government in Hawija one week ago,” Aamaq quoted an anonymous ISIS leader as saying.
The anonymous ISIS source has reportedly told Aamaqm, an ISIS-affiliated news blog, that there are other Peshmerga in ISIS hands, but the news blog did not mention what ISIS wants to do with them.
As many as 60 US Special Forces personnel and Peshmerga counterterrorism forces participated in a raid on an ISIS prison compound near Hawija on October 22. According to the Kurdistan National Security Council, one American soldier was killed during the operation and three Peshmerga were wounded. The operation freed 69 hostages held by ISIS, all Sunni Arabs.
“You were lucky to be rescued, but unfortunately there were none of the Peshmerga left who were there before,” Masoud Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, said in a meeting with the freed hostages.
Rudaw doesn't publish ISIS's footage which contains gruesome scenes aimed at propaganda for the Islamic State (ISIS).
ISIS's video shows gruesome beheading of four Peshmerga members held in ISIS custody. The footage begins with scenes from the joint US-Kurdish operation and is allegedly recorded at the sight of the operation.
“Islamic State militants have killed four Peshmerga members by beheading at the site of the US Special Forces operation in cooperation with the Kurdistan government in Hawija one week ago,” Aamaq quoted an anonymous ISIS leader as saying.
The anonymous ISIS source has reportedly told Aamaqm, an ISIS-affiliated news blog, that there are other Peshmerga in ISIS hands, but the news blog did not mention what ISIS wants to do with them.
As many as 60 US Special Forces personnel and Peshmerga counterterrorism forces participated in a raid on an ISIS prison compound near Hawija on October 22. According to the Kurdistan National Security Council, one American soldier was killed during the operation and three Peshmerga were wounded. The operation freed 69 hostages held by ISIS, all Sunni Arabs.
“You were lucky to be rescued, but unfortunately there were none of the Peshmerga left who were there before,” Masoud Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, said in a meeting with the freed hostages.
Rudaw doesn't publish ISIS's footage which contains gruesome scenes aimed at propaganda for the Islamic State (ISIS).