Kurds fire back at ISIS with a weapon they left behind

ISIS is using makeshift weapons because their technology apparently only goes as far as the sword, knife, and stolen firearms. The Kurds found something that resembled a pirate's cannon and it took the Kurds a couple of days to figure out just what it was. They seized it in a firefight with ISIS.

Well, they finally figured it out and as they crouched behind sandbags, they fired a bunch of homemade shells they found with the mortar at a terrorist-held village about a mile away.

The "how-to-make-a-bomb-in-the-kitchen-of-your-mom" shells fired out of an 8 foot tube mounted on a pair of tires culminating in a puff of smoke on the horizon. The jury-rigged device worked.

The Peshmerga nearly wet themselves with laughter and mirth, high-fiving and having the "T of their L."

One Peshmerga soldier we shall refer to as Ali, because that's his name, was wounded in his arm in a battle in Sinjar, where the "mortar" was found. "I hope they felt it like I felt the pain in my arm," he said.

The mortar shells, like the ones we Americans used in WW2, had the names of women on them, to "honor the girls back home." Except in the case of ISIS, the names were those of livestock.

But in truth, this war is horrible and is taking too long to end. If we and our allies were serious about ending it, we could do it at the drop of a burqa.



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