This Must-See Video of Peshmerga Taking Out ISIS Bomber Is Everything

Bridget Johnson

March 09, 2015 9:56 AM

This video was being shared today among Kurdish social media accounts. Today, Peshmerga fighters launched an offensive against ISIS in southwest Kirkuk. An ISIS vehicle with a suicide driver, laden with explosives, was sent to the Kurds’ front line. They got rid of the suicide bomber in a very explosive fashion.

peshmerga captain who took part in today’s offensive in Kirkuk: today was a very successful operation.I saw 25 isis corpses with my own eyes

— Fazel Hawramy (@FazelHawramy) March 9, 2015

#KRG minister of Peshmerga: 10 Peshmergas lost their lives in today’s attacks to clear #ISIS in west of Kirkuk.

— Rudaw English (@RudawEnglish) March 9, 2015

#IS claims responsibility for 4 suicide attacks in 24 hours near #Kirkuk, Rutbah, #Tikrit & #Kobani pic.twitter.com/4EcsFzXQBI

— Zaid Benjamin (@zaidbenjamin) March 8, 2015

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Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and analyses have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.

Bridget is a Senior Fellow specializing in terrorism analysis at the Haym Salomon Center. She is a Senior Risk Analyst for Gate 15, a homeland security risk management firm in the Beltway. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico, New York Daily News, The Jerusalem Post, The Hill, New York Observer, Washington Times, RealClearWorld and more, and has myriad television and radio credits including Al-Jazeera and SiriusXM. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.