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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe Washington Times<\/a> reports that the peshmerga forces are begging for more arms to battle against the ISIS thugs. ISIS considers them a more dangerous target than the Iraqis, apparently. ISIS has been converting the spoils of their battles with the Iraqis into Vehicle Borne Explosive devices. HMMVs and bulldozer are being fitted with shaped charges so the suicide bombers can drive them into peshmerga defenses;<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t have the kind of equipment that we wish to have, especially when it comes to heavy weapons,\u201d the younger Mr. Barzani told the BBC in an interview Friday, adding that the last major shipment from Baghdad arrived in May. Peshmerga forces have only about 1,000 gas masks, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately,\u201d the issue of adequate supplies and firepower \u201chas been a problem from Day One\u201d of the war, he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Meanwhile, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the terrorist organization known as the PKK, has been taking advantage of the civil war in Syria that has spilled over into Iraq and Turkey to attack Turkish forces, according to Voice of America<\/a>, which also reports that the Turks are spending more time attacking the PKK and Kurds than they are ISIS; <\/p>\n Turkish fighter jets responded overnight with airstrikes against Kurdish militants after the Kurdish fighters attacked a troop convoy near Turkey’s border with Iraq and Iran.<\/p>\n The military said Monday F-4 and F-16 warplanes struck 13 targets of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.<\/p>\n Sunday’s attack involved roadside bombs that heavily damaged two armored vehicles and left an unconfirmed number of Turkish troops dead.<\/p>\n The PKK said the militants killed 15 soldiers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, the US finds itself in the position of needing the Turks’ cooperation in the war against ISIS as well as the peshmerga who seem to be doing a better job of killing ISIS than Iraq or Turkey. However if we supply weapons to peshmerga, how can we keep those weapons from falling into the hands of PKK and prevent those weapons from being used against the Turks? <\/p>\n There’s a price for not being proactive in the war against terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"