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Skilled gunsmith helps Kurds turn ISIS' guns on terrorists
FoxNews.com ^
| 3/18/15
| Fox News
Posted on 03/18/2015 12:00:08 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
In their fight against ISIS, the Kurdish army known as Peshmerga has a secret weapon – a second-generation gunsmith so skilled he can practically turn a bucket of rusty bolts into a killing machine for the rugged, but cash-strapped, fighting force.
Bakhtiar Aziz works in a dimly lit basement shop in Erbil, refurbishing guns taken from the enemy, bringing broken and even decades-old firearms back to life and helping to outfit an army as short on weapons as it is long on heart. On a recent day, he inspected an M-16A4 assault rifle badly damaged in a coalition airstrike. Pocked with holes, missing a large section of the barrel and with human hair wedged in its moving parts, the gun was found by Peshmerga soldiers near the town of Gwer.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bakhtiaraziz; banglist; erbil; gunsmith; iraq; isis; kurdistan; peshmerga; syria; waronterror
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Cool story...
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
We should be backing the Kurds to the hilt.
To: ozzymandus
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:06:06 PM PDT
by
jospehm20
To: ozzymandus
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:06:22 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Plea$e $upport Free Republic!)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Great way of making him a target though.
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:07:35 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
WHY would the media provide his full name *and* location?
Good grief. Do they ever think things all the way through?
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:08:14 PM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: Darksheare
We were simultaneously typing the same idea...
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:09:10 PM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: Darksheare
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:09:19 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Plea$e $upport Free Republic!)
To: ozzymandus
I agree.
The only problem would be the Turks would get very ancy......................
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:09:29 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Blue Jays
LOL.
I see.
Another member of the “I know a bad idea when I see one” club!
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:10:16 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Perhaps.
Hopefully they protect him as if he is gold.
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:10:43 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Red Badger
The Turks could use a good kick in the ass.
To: ozzymandus
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Depends on what the meaning of ISIS.
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:21:35 PM PDT
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
To: jospehm20
One of the greatest of all Islamic leaders was Saladin—who fought the 3rd Crusade and Richard Lionheart to a standstil He was a Kurd.
To: Blue Jays
They know EXACTLY what they’re doing there.
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:32:51 PM PDT
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
May be a dumb question but how did ISIS get a “M-16A4 assault rifle” ???
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:36:45 PM PDT
by
lwd
To: lwd
It says in the article the guy assumes it’s from Iraqi Army who was killed or captured. However, there have been pictures of ISIS in Syria waving around M16’s...
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Holes in an FN receiver:
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:52:39 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: ozzymandus
Instead, we moved weapons to ISIS through Benghazi.
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posted on
03/18/2015 12:54:55 PM PDT
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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