I have a more colorful report on this from the Times of London.A herd of wild boar mauled three Islamic State militants to death and injured five others in Iraq while the extremists were setting up an ambush, locals claimed.
The men were said to have taken cover in a bed of reeds near fields in the Hamrin mountains, about 55 miles southwest of Kirkuk. They were planning an attack on tribesmen who had formed anti-ISIS brigades and had fled to the mountains when the jihadists seized the nearby town of Hawija in mid-2014.
Sheikh Anwar al-Assi, a chief of the local Ubaid tribe and supervisor of the anti-ISIS forces, told The Times that at least eight fighters had hidden in dense reeds.“It is likely their movement disturbed a herd of wild pigs, which inhabit the area as well as the nearby cornfields,” he said. “The area is dense with reeds, which are good for hiding in.”
from Bel Trew (Cairo) and Ammar Shammary (Baghdad) for The Times; April 26, 2017.Some of the Reader's Comments are ZINGERS.It was a hambush.
I thought the Boar War ended more than a 100 years ago. Oh wait--that was the Boer War.
A decisive victory for the tusk force.
So, Muslims can't eat pork, but pork can eat Muslims. Who'd a thunk it?
Mission Imporkable.
Here's the link, although I had to register (no charge) to access the whole thing.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...-in-ambush-bc022dlqm[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 04-26-2017).]
