ISIS terrorists posed as soldiers with fake check-post; killed 5 Iraqi troops

NewsBharati    29-Mar-2018
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Baghdad, March 29: At least five Iraqi security personnel were killed Thursday in an ambush by Daesh terrorists in the northern city of Mosul, according to a local security source.

A captain in Iraq’s border security force, Saif al-Din al-Shammari said that a group of members of the Da'id organization disguised themselves as Iraqi forces and set up a fake security control on the road between the Mosul district and the Rabia district of Tall Afar district west of Nineveh.

 

"The terrorists managed to deceive five soldiers during their return to their homes, and killed them after identifying their original identity, and stealing their personal light weapons they were carrying and the vehicle they were traveling, and all their personal belongings and fled to an unknown destination."

Al-Shammari said that an Iraqi army security force found the bodies of the dead associates and their identity documents on the road linking the city of Mosul and Tal Afar district, west of Mosul.

Colonel Ahmed al-Jubouri of the Nineveh Operations Command said that "the organization has started to disguise itself as the Iraqi forces in attacking the security elements who finish their duties in the cities and return to their place of residence."

He stressed that this method of terrorism is the most dangerous and has caused heavy losses among Iraqi forces in the past few weeks, and the senior military leadership is considering new plans to curb those criminal methods.

On Tuesday, the organization assassinated four members of the tribal crowd as they passed through the same road, linking Mosul and Tal Afar after disguising themselves as the official security forces and setting up an imaginary checkpoint.

Last December, the state organization lost all the territory it occupied in 2014, which was estimated to be one-third of Iraq's territory, following three years of military campaigns backed by the US-led coalition.

But the organization can still launch violent attacks through the ambushes of the style of guerrilla war, which was adopted before 2014.

The organization has recently published a collection of photographs of the mass executions of eight Iraqi police forces, who had been kidnapped by the amount of money on the road between the capital Baghdad and the province Kirkuk.

On Wednesday, Iraqi forces staged a violent attack on the outskirts of the district of Tuz Khurmato, south of Kirkuk. Twenty-five people were killed and 25 others were wounded in an armed attack on a bus carrying civilians in the same governorate.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi warned on Tuesday of an attempt to organize a campaign to launch attacks as parliamentary elections near May 12.