I have to say that the Peshmerga have been a huge disappointment. All we saw over the last few weeks were clips upon clips of them running around with swanky guns, nice uniforms and screaming a great deal. As soon as they faced ISIS, the capital itself, Erbil was under siege!
Some accounts here:
Shifan Rashu Ossei gave
Al-Akhbar an account of what happened with his family. He said that IS had threatened to attack their village in Sinjar 20 days earlier. When they tried to leave in anticipation of the threat, he said, the Peshmerga stopped them,
telling them they would repel any attack.
Ossei said, “But the IS attacked us and the Peshmerga escaped, and left us to face our fate alone.”
http://english.al-akhbar.com/conten...=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: AlAkhbarEnglish (Al Akhbar English)
Beginning in the early hours of the morning, IS forces attacked the Sinjar Mountains. T
he Kurdish Peshmerga defended the area for two hours before being overcome and retreating.
The Kurdish loss of this strategic territory resulted in the flight of hundreds of thousands of Kurdish refugees
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Here is an ISIS Jihadist sitting in the Peshmerga regional headquarters....