ISIS Maniacs Take Car Bombing to Next Level with 'Suicide Tanker Bomb'

Reaganite Republican ^ | 26 January 2015 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Now that the Islamic State's blood-soaked establishment/expansion has been been slowed considerably by Kurdish Peshmerga units -along with US/coalition airstrikes-
the Kurds are moving into ISIS territory around Mosul (which the Islamists have been turning into a fortress) as ISIS appears to be on the defensive...

For a group with so much money, captured equipment, and fanatical fighters, the tactical move to suicide bombings with vehicles this weekend -attempting to slow the Kurdish advance- seems surprisingly desperate. Where did the ISIS artillery go?

But it's not just any old Corolla packed with explosives they're using, the Islamists have developed a 'suicide tanker' which they sought to deploy against front-line Peshmerga infantry yesterday.
The idea is to drive right up to the Kurdish units and detonate bombs/tanker full of fuel in their midst.

The vehicle is adorned with improvised armor/cow-catchers to keep bullets and intruders out of the cabin and engine bay while preventing them from shooting the tires out.
As such, it resembles a Mexican narco-tank crossed with an IDF anti-terror bulldozer.

That one yesterday didn't work, tho- Peshmerga managed to detonate the truck by firing steadily upon it as it approached, so it done-blew-up at a safe distance (below). 

A similar tanker-bomb killed 7 at a checkpoint just north of Baghdad last month, so it looks like we'll be seeing more suicide-tankers from the
blood-drunk Islamic State in coming weeks/months.

You have to wonder what's the next ISIS engineering innovation, one filled with radioactive weapons/waste... a 'dirty tanker' bomb?
This is the same outfit tossing poison-gas grenades at the Kurdish line and dropping chlorine bombs on civilians, so expect the worst.

Photos twitter

[Haiku Guy]

It is interesting that this suicide bomber vehicle has all of the protection around the driver and engine, with no consideration for the fact that the most vulnerable component of this weapons system is the bomb itself.

Hopefully it will take them a while to figure that one out.

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Time for the obligatory Farm Film Report

[Flick Lives]

Arab Spring!

[Reaganite Republican]

Looks like the Kurds figured that out first lol

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Reaganite Republican.

Now that the Islamic State's blood-soaked establishment/expansion has been been slowed considerably by Kurdish Peshmerga units -- along with US/coalition airstrikes -- the Kurds are moving into ISIS territory around Mosul (which the Islamists have been turning into a fortress) as ISIS appears to be on the defensive...

ISIS in Iraq is nearly finished. The Iranian proxies in Iraq have been letting the Kurds do most of the fighting. The next act in this sad play will be the Iranian proxies attacking the victorious Kurds after ISIS has been destroyed there. Oh, and Obama doing nothing about it, unless he increases the monthly payment (currently $700 million) to Iran.

• Russia condemns U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria
• Kurds recapture strategic Kobani hilltop from Daesh
• Kobane: "a martyred town, a symbolic Town"
• Islamic State Faces War of Attrition in Syria's Kobane
• Syria Kurds 'recapture' areas of Kobane from IS
• Kurdish fighters retake strategic Kobani hill
• U.S.'s Kerry hints Kobani not strategic goal, buffer zone merits study
• ISIS Continues to Lose Ground against Kurds in Kobane
• ISIS In Kobani And Raqqa Facing Huge Losses: Mounting Toll And Injury as Kurds Step Up Offensive
• 30 US-Led Airstrikes Bombard ISIS Stronghold of Raqqa; 50 Militants Killed in Kobane
• Islamic State group attacks Kobani from Turkey
• U.S., allies conduct 23 air strikes in Syria, Iraq: military
• ISIS Dealt A Deadly Blow In Kobane: 100 Islamic State Fighters Killed By Kurds In Three Days
• The great Kobane fightback: Kurdish fighters take back swathes of city as US steps up air strikes
• Black flags over Kobani: We are losing this war because ISIS is all in and we're not.

[baltimorepoet]

That is a possibility..

Ironically, if ISIS is able to hold on until a Republican takes office in 2016 (or a less willfully incompetent Democrat), then when ISIS does go down, the Kurds would be more likely to expect help from the US against Iran/Shiites, if such a move was made.

[SargeK]

It’s been done. 1983 Beirut, Lebanon IIRC.

[SunkenCiv]

Once the Kurds prevail, the Iranians will be able to turn their full attention to Syria — and they’ll have what’s left of ISIS in Syria entirely in their fold by then.

[teeman8r]

I appreciate that sarge.

It only encourages me tho.

Thanks

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I like it!

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I meant to refer to the quotation of a previous freeper! [Not the tank bomb]