{"id":14878,"date":"2016-04-30T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=14878"},"modified":"2016-04-30T11:20:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T16:20:53","slug":"crusader-corner-isis-fighters-in-action-or-a-chinese-fire-drill-you-be-the-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/30\/crusader-corner-isis-fighters-in-action-or-a-chinese-fire-drill-you-be-the-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusader Corner: ISIS &#8220;Fighters&#8221; in Action or a Chinese Fire Drill? You Be the Judge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>I suppose we should be thankful these IS goat humpers kill more of their own fighters during a firefight than anyone else. Wow. Amazing they have gotten as far as they have. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What It&#039;s Really Like to Fight for the Islamic State\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aM3ElTvF52I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>New footage claiming to show Islamic State fighters in battle reveals confusion and retreat as they take on Kurdish peshmerga troops in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-promo\">Vice News says the video was taken from the headcam of an IS fighter killed in March during a battle some 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the city of Mosul, which has since June 2014 been in Islamic State hands.<\/p>\n<p>Vice does not elaborate on how it came to acquire the footage.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, a handful of fighters dressed in some form of sand-colored uniform are seen inside a military vehicle, scrambling to find the correct weaponry as they engage the peshmerga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPass me another rocket,\u201d says one. \u201cA rocket, a rocket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video then shows a hand reaching down to locate the rocket among a collection of bags, guns and other miscellaneous clutter.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/footage-shows-is-fighters-scrambling-for-rockets-fleeing-battle\/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&amp;utm_campaign=a6fdaee0cd-2016_04_30&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_adb46cec92-a6fdaee0cd-55343657\"> Times of Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose we should be thankful these IS goat humpers kill more of their own fighters during a firefight than anyone else. Wow. Amazing they have gotten as far as they have. -SF New footage claiming to show Islamic State fighters in battle reveals confusion and retreat as they take on Kurdish peshmerga troops in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2574,74,3172,2417,2413,2726,2990,2470,5206,272],"tags":[1751,3077,3464,1699],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}