This Iraqi woman 'decapitated IS soldiers and cooked their heads'
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Wahida Mohamed Al-Jumaily. PHOTO: Facebook/Wahida Mohamed
An Iraqi woman who beheaded and cooked the heads of the Islamic State fighters to avenge the deaths of her family claims to be one of the people the movement fears most.
Better known as Um Hanadi, she has published photos on Facebook appearing to show her carrying a severed head, two severed heads in a cooking pot and a third showing her standing among headless bodies which have been burned.
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The terror group killed her second husband earlier this year and has previously killed her father and three brothers. Describing herself as a “housewife”, she leads a 70-strong militia in the fight against Islamic State in the recently liberated town of Shirqat, which sits 50 miles south of Islamic State stronghold Mosul.
Um Hanadi began fighting militants in 2004, working with Iraqi forces and the coalition in the battle against al Qaeda and later Islamic State. She recently led her militia in battle to help government forces liberate Shirqat.
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General Jamaa Anad, commander of Iraqi ground forces in Salahuddin province, told CNN they had provided her group with vehicles and weapons. "She lost her brothers and husbands as martyrs," he said. "So out of revenge she formed her own force." Kurdish soldiers claim Islamic State fighters believe those killed by heaven do not ascend to heaven. The prospect, the Kurds says, has left them frightened.
This article originally appeared on The Independent.
Better known as Um Hanadi, she has published photos on Facebook appearing to show her carrying a severed head, two severed heads in a cooking pot and a third showing her standing among headless bodies which have been burned.
Islamic State leader Hafiz Saeed Khan killed in joint US-Afghan operation
The terror group killed her second husband earlier this year and has previously killed her father and three brothers. Describing herself as a “housewife”, she leads a 70-strong militia in the fight against Islamic State in the recently liberated town of Shirqat, which sits 50 miles south of Islamic State stronghold Mosul.
Um Hanadi began fighting militants in 2004, working with Iraqi forces and the coalition in the battle against al Qaeda and later Islamic State. She recently led her militia in battle to help government forces liberate Shirqat.
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General Jamaa Anad, commander of Iraqi ground forces in Salahuddin province, told CNN they had provided her group with vehicles and weapons. "She lost her brothers and husbands as martyrs," he said. "So out of revenge she formed her own force." Kurdish soldiers claim Islamic State fighters believe those killed by heaven do not ascend to heaven. The prospect, the Kurds says, has left them frightened.
This article originally appeared on The Independent.