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The Kurdish Base Guards in Kobane: Were They Drunk?

By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Sat Oct 04, 2014 at 03:48:19 PM EST
Tags: ISIS, Kobane, Syria (all tags)
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On October 1 and 2, 2014, ISIS attacked the Kurds at the south border entrance to Kobane, also called Ain al Arab. There are several buildings manned by Kurdish guards who fled. The empty station is littered with liquor bottles. (None of the following videos contain graphic images or dead bodies.)

The attack by ISIS is in this video. The fighters appear to be Chechen, and for a few seconds, starting at 1 min 04 sec in, I think you can see ISIS military commander Omar al Shishani, as he talks into a radio and barks commands, which the others then repeat and relay to the other fighters.[More...]

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