Hopefully there will be many more members of ISIS in the same position as this dead man, put there by the Kurds.
Kurds seize Iraqi town from militants
Jonathan Krohn, Special for USA TODAY8:33 p.m. EDT October 2, 2014
(Photo: Hadi Mizban, AP)
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RABIA, Iraq — His plump body was splayed on the floor of the unfinished hospital building. His left arm was mostly blown off, a pool of blood staining the ground where his elbow would have been. His eyes were shut. The wall behind him was riddled with bullet holes.
This nameless fighter was one of about 30 Islamic State militants who stayed during a three-day battle with Kurdish soldiers for control of this strategic town on the Iraqi-Syrian border. Well-armed with weapons that included American assault rifles, they took shelter in the hospital in the center of town.
The Kurds gained control of the hospital Thursday, aided by a British airstrike Wednesday.
Capt. Nakib Hami said the Kurdish fighters began the successful assault on the building nearly five hours after an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition trying to halt the militants' advance across much of Syria and Iraq.
Inside the building, they found a handful of bodies and expected to find others under mounds of rubble caused by artillery fire and bombings.
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Kurds seize Iraqi town from militants?
Kurds seize Iraqi town from militants
Jonathan Krohn, Special for USA TODAY8:33 p.m. EDT October 2, 2014
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RABIA, Iraq — His plump body was splayed on the floor of the unfinished hospital building. His left arm was mostly blown off, a pool of blood staining the ground where his elbow would have been. His eyes were shut. The wall behind him was riddled with bullet holes.
This nameless fighter was one of about 30 Islamic State militants who stayed during a three-day battle with Kurdish soldiers for control of this strategic town on the Iraqi-Syrian border. Well-armed with weapons that included American assault rifles, they took shelter in the hospital in the center of town.
The Kurds gained control of the hospital Thursday, aided by a British airstrike Wednesday.
Capt. Nakib Hami said the Kurdish fighters began the successful assault on the building nearly five hours after an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition trying to halt the militants' advance across much of Syria and Iraq.
Inside the building, they found a handful of bodies and expected to find others under mounds of rubble caused by artillery fire and bombings.
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Kurds seize Iraqi town from militants?