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Hero Iraqi soldier save his comrades from an ISIS suicide bomber by reversing [into speeding truck]
Daily Mail ^ | 9 March 2017 | Darren Boyle

Posted on 03/09/2017 3:59:28 AM PST by huldah1776

The ISIS suicide bomber drove his car packed with explosives at an Iraqi patrol

One of the Iraqi troops blocked the road with his lightly-protected Humvee

The suicide bomber detonated his explosives as he approached the Iraqi

ISIS is completely surrounded in Mosul by Iraqi and allied rebel groups

An Iraqi soldier saved his comrades lives by diverting a suicide bomber's desperate attack in Mosul by blocking the road with his Humvee. The attack was filmed by an ISIS drone and later uploaded onto the internet. In the shocking footage, the car bomb can be seen approaching from the top of the screen and was heading towards a group of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Unit forces involved in the battle to retake the city.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hero; iraq; suicidebomber
VIDEO at source...Instead of driving ahead, the Iraqi places his vehicle next to another one blocking the road.
1 posted on 03/09/2017 3:59:28 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776

The Trump Effect.

Demoralized Iraqi troops who surrendered and fled without a fight before ISIS when Obama set the tone for US foreign policy now have the fighting spirit under Trump.


2 posted on 03/09/2017 5:38:35 AM PST by Uncle Lonny
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ISIS has their own drones? Can’t we shoot them down, or better still, track them to their landing areas, or even trace back to where they are being controlled from, and bomb the crap out of the command centers?


3 posted on 03/09/2017 6:15:19 AM PST by ExpatCanuck
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They need to hack into ISIS drones.


4 posted on 03/09/2017 7:51:53 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Uncle Lonny

Good point!


5 posted on 03/09/2017 7:52:57 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: ExpatCanuck
ISIS has their own drones? Can’t we shoot them down, or better still, track them to their landing areas, or even trace back to where they are being controlled from, and bomb the crap out of the command centers?

I'm pretty sure we're talking about the cheap sort of quadcoptor camera drones you can buy on Amazon. The operator of the drone was probably within visual range of the whole event when it went down.

6 posted on 03/09/2017 8:17:14 AM PST by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the next dumb@ss Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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FTA: It is not known if either driver survived

How stupid is that writer!


7 posted on 03/09/2017 11:03:10 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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