Iraq Crisis: Kurdish Peshmerga Commander Claims Amerli Recaptured From 'Drugged Up' Jihadis

IBT ^ | September 2, 2014 17:43 BST | Jack Moore

[GonzoII]

A Kurdish peshmerga commander has claimed that his forces retook the besieged town of Amerli in northern Iraq from Isis (now known as the Islamic State) militants who were "high on drugs".

Last week, Kurdish peshmerga Iraqi forces and Shia militias recaptured the Turkmen town of Amerli after it fell into the hands of IS for two months.

"They are high on drugs," Private Qassim Hussein Ali told The Times. "If you stand and fight them for ten minutes they will run away or die."

The claim is unusual because the radical form of Islam that the terror group enforces in its self-delcared Islamic 'Caliphate', across northeastern Syria and northern Iraq, outlaws cigarettes, drugs and alcohol.

The group have even posted online footage of its militants chopping down fields of marijuana plants and dousing them with flammable liquid and setting the plants alight.

Approximately 15,000 Iraqis, mainly Shia Turkmen, were trapped in the town of Amerli until renewed US air strikes hit IS positions, allowing Iraqi forces to take control.

As the coalition forces moved in on the town from two fronts, US and Iraqi aircraft supplied overnight air cover.

However, IS have left roadside bombs and booby traps around the town, leaving it a dangerous area for citizens and military forces to stay.

IS "threatening to slaughter us"

"Security forces and militia fighters are inside Amerli now after breaking the siege and that will definitely relieve the suffering of residents,"...

[TangoLimaSierra]

I’m sure that halal weed is ok.

[Shadow44]

Didn’t Iraqi insurgents used to get amped up on epinephrine during the peak of the insurgency?

[tumblindice]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins
Mooselimb assassins, like Indian thugs, but hashish raddled.

“Whut?” Barry O. “Is it noon already?”

[needmorePaine]

The claim is unusual because the radical form of Islam that the terror group enforces in its self-delcared Islamic 'Caliphate', across northeastern Syria and northern Iraq, outlaws cigarettes, drugs and alcohol.

Yes, such an usual claim because if anyone will maintain his integrity in this crazy world, it is a member of ISIS.

[cripplecreek]

The claim is unusual because the radical form of Islam that the terror group enforces in its self-delcared Islamic 'Caliphate', across northeastern Syria and northern Iraq, outlaws cigarettes, drugs and alcohol.

Nothing unusual about it coming from the religion of hypocrisy.

[M Kehoe]

Many Muslims chew qat.

5.56mm

[flaglady47]

Breaking News: ISIS just beheaded the other American journalist, Steven Sotloff. Just heard it in ABC radio. It’s on the internet, they said. Same Brit that executed the last one, beheaded this one also.

[Red Badger]

Many Muslims chew qat.

WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!....................

[Red Badger]

B A S T A R D S ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !................

[elhombrelibre]

Well, some of the 9/11 bombers went to strip joints the nights before they hijacked the planes that attack the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

[BigEdLB]

You might get high if you stand downwind of that marijuana field that was burning

[RitaOK]

The rampant unquantified ingestion of drugs has all along been a given, in order to reap the level of barbary and brutality required to turn mankind into viscious killing machines against helpless, defenseless, unarmed humans.

[GonzoII]

"You might get high if you stand downwind of that marijuana field that was burning"

How do you know that?

[PoloSec]

From what could see on the video, it appears they only burned a small portion of what was growing, probably just enough to save their own heads.

[BigEdLB]

He he he -

[Jimmy Valentine]

Kill them all No prisoners