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ISIS Dug Network of Tunnels Under Iraqi City of Sinjar
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Network of tunnels built by ISIS complete with sleeping quarters and electricity supplies discovered underneath recently liberated Iraqi town
- Around 40 underground routes were found in the war-torn town of Sinjar
The tunnels were uncovered by Kurdish forces who reclaimed the city
Tunnels run for several hundred metres, starting and ending from houses
American-made bomb making tools and copies of the Koran were found
IRBIL, Iraq Under the Iraqi town of Sinjar, ISIS militants built a network of tunnels, complete with sleeping quarters, wired with
electricity and fortified with sandbags. There, they had boxes of U.S.-made ammunition, medicines and copies of the Quran stashed on shelves.
The Associated Press obtained extensive video footage of the tunnels, which were uncovered by Kurdish forces that took the city in northwestern
Iraq earlier this month after more than a year of IS rule.
"We found between 30 and 40 tunnels inside Sinjar," said Shamo Eado, a commander from Sinjar from the Iraqi Kurdish fighters known as
peshmerga. "It was like a network inside the city."
"Daesh dug these trenches in order to hide from airstrikes and have free movement underground as well as to store weapons and explosives,"
Eado said using an Arabic acronym for ISIS. "This was their military arsenal."
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A former ISIS tunnel in Sinjar, Iraq, on November 15. John Moore / Getty Images
The video, shot by a freelancer touring the town with Kurdish fighters, showed two
tunnels running several hundred yards, each starting and ending from houses, through holes knocked in walls or floors.
The narrow tunnels, carved in the rock apparently with jackhammers or other handheld equipment, are just tall enough for a man to stand in.
Rows of sandbags line sections of the walls, electrical wires power fans and lights and metal braces reinforce the ceilings. One section of the tunnel resembled a bunker.
Dusty copies of the Quran sit above piles of blankets and pillows. Prescription drugs painkillers and antibiotics lie scattered along the floor.
In another section of the tunnel, the footage shows stocks of ammunition, including American-made cartridges and bomb-making tools.
ISIS has been digging tunnels for protection and movement throughout the territory it controls in Iraq and Syria, even before the U.S.-led coalition launched its campaign of airstrikes against the group more than a year ago. "This has been part of ISIS' strategy from the very beginning," said Lina Khatib a senior research associate at the Arab Reform initiative, a Paris-based think-tank. "ISIS has been well prepared for this kind of intervention."
ISIS took control of Sinjar in August 2014, killing and capturing thousands of the town's mostly Yazidi residents. Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq with roots that date back to ancient Mesopotamia, are considered heretics by the group.
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A secret network of tunnels built by ISIS have been discovered under an Iraqi town by Kurdish forces.
A Kurdish soldier shows bomb-making materials found in the tunnels
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Around 40 underground routes were found in Sinjar, complete with sleeping quarters, pictured, electricity, sandbags,
American-made bomb making tools, medicine and copies of the Koran
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The tunnels were uncovered by Kurdish forces that reclaimed the city in North-west Iraq this month, after more than a year of Islamic State rule.
Pictured are the makeshift sleeping quarters used by the ISIS fighters
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ISIS fighters enter the two tunnels, which run for several hundred metres at entrances such as these.
Each starts and ends from houses, through holes knocked in walls or floors
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The tunnels are narrow and just tall enough for an adult to stand in, as shown. This section of the tunnel resembled a bunker,
with dusty copies of the Koran and rubbish left on the ground
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The houses where ISIS fighters enter the tunnels, pictured, are derelict buildings now after the more than a year of fighting for the town
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In another section of the tunnel, the footage shows stocks of ammunition, pictured,
including American-made cartridges and bomb-making tools
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Mr Eado said that as Kurdish forces clear Sinjar of explosives, he expects to find more tunnels and evidence of atrocities.
Pictured are clothes hung up to dry by ISIS forces inside the tunnels along with other clothes strewn on the ground
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"US made ammunition". Captured or acquired, that's bad either way
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Looks like they really put some effort into this lol what idiots.
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This really is nuts.. All for nothing lol.
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Crazy crazy organisation,
how do they manage all this.
how do they manage all this.
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Digging networks of tunnels underground isn't new or unheard-of.
The cartels have been doing it for decades. The Chinese also have extremely vast networks of tunnels surrounding their borders.
The cartels have been doing it for decades. The Chinese also have extremely vast networks of tunnels surrounding their borders.
This reply is mainly aimed towards people saying that this is crazy
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Must have been terrifying making sure everything was safe to go inside.
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really really hope we can keep these guys of out America stay safe. or keep em out of anywhere
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This is bizarre, all for nothing lol.
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Can't believe certain people said to me these guys aren't smart haha.
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