Hero Sniper Allan Duncan with senior
Peshmerga officer
A former British soldier fighting with the Kurds
against Islamic State has revealed the chilling
truth about the bloody struggle.
Sniper Allan Duncan told how heavily armed
extremists are high on drugs as they go into
battle.
He also revealed IS thugs are launching
increasingly frequent and terrifying chemical
attacks on Kurdish forces.
And they sell young female sex slaves to
foreign mercenaries for the price of a packet of
cigarettes.
Allan left his self-employed job in Scotland for
Iraq and Syria to join brave Peshmerga fighters
– the group that stands in the way of IS and
the West.
Deadly foes: Islamic State of Iraq masked
militants firing weapons
He claimed IS will be a bigger threat to Britain
unless air strikes are backed up with
equipment and weapons for those fighting
them on the ground.
And the 48-year-old said jihadists fearing Allied
warplane attacks are giving themselves up in
droves.
Tragedy: Yazidi Refugees
“They are high on cocaine and amphetamines.
It helps them fight.”
From his trench, Allan later surveyed a
battlefield littered with bodies of the dead and
dying terrorists.
As nightfall came, IS fighters dragged the killed
and injured fighters into tunnels and ditches.
He said the deadly attack was just one of
dozens his group of fighters witnessed in the
region.
The jihadist drugs are smuggled through Iran
and Turkey by terror masterminds to keep
fighters in the battle.
CapturedL An extremist being caught
But they have encouraged a nightmare of rape,
public beheadings and sex attacks on female
captives.
IS has killed hundreds of Westerners, including
Brit hostages who were beheaded in Syria and
in the Paris and Tunisia attacks.
Allan, a former corporal with the Queen’s Own
Highlanders, said: “I had to act. IS is a threat
to that area and to the West and only one
group is challenging them, the Peshmerga, for
whom I have enormous respect.
“When I look at IS prisoners I see them as
animals because of what they do to people.”
One of the horrors that confronted Allan, who
fights unpaid, was the aftermath of the Sinjar
massacre, when IS killers slaughtered
thousands of Yazidis and abducted young girls.
Courage: Peshmerga fighters after an assault
He said: “There are 16 mass graves of
thousands of corpses at Sinjar.”
Allan also told how young Yazidi girls in Iraq
are sold as sex slaves or exchanged for
mercenary work by Chechen gunmen.
He added: “IS have sex markets where they buy
or sell young sex slaves for as little as a
packet of cigarettes or £6 a time.
"Chechen gunmen are bussed to the frontline in
exchange for oil to be sold outside Syria or
Iraq, or sometimes for sex slaves.”
Allan’s insight into IS comes from months of
handling jihadists taken prisoner.
Conflict: The church at Sinjar, turned into
rubble after a battle with ISIS
But while he was fighting in northern Iraq he
discovered the thugs were launching chemical
attacks.
And he warns these could increase as IS is
driven out of the country.
The jihadists launched five major ammonia and
chlorine attacks against Pershmerga forces –
leaving 20 in hospital with severe breathing
difficulties.
Allan, who worked in Scotland before joining
the fight against the extremists, said: “The fear
is that IS will launch more and more chemical
attacks as they get more desperate because
they are being defeated all along the front.”
And he revealed IS is extremely well equipped,
with 2,500 armoured Humvees, stolen from the
fleeing Iraqi army last year, sniper rifles, MI6
machine guns, 50 Calibre Guns, mortars,
rockets, tanks and grenades.
By start contrast, the Pershmerga, whose name
means “one who confronts death”, are woefully
underequipped.
Allan said: “In Gulf War One I fought with the
7th Armoured Division in armoured personnel
carriers.
“But in northern Iraq an armoured personnel
carrier is a 4x4 SUV. The Peshmerga urgently
need more equipment. I have fought IS with a
Second World War weapon.
“They need Humvees, weapons, gas masks,
artillery, mortars, body armour and night vision.
"But coalition air strikes are having a good
effect and now many IS are handing
themselves in to us.
Fierce fights: The Kurdish fighters will never
give up
“They are the most wonderful people and fierce
warriors who are secular. They don’t hate
anyone but IS.”
And while Allan insisted IS prisoners captured
by Peshmerga – which number in the “low
hundreds” – are treated well, he warned they
face trial in Kurdistan and added: “They still
have the death penalty there.”
Allan said he is preparing once more to leave
Britain to return to the front line.
He will rejoin his Peshmerga comrades and
continue his courageous bid to help rid the
Middle East of IS.
His first task will be to link up with the Kurds
in the battle for the huge city of Mosul in
northern Iraq.
Leader: Alleged leader of the Islamic State
jihadist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
A 3,000-strong band of diehard jihadists are
trying to stop it falling into Peshmerga hands.
They have set up their last-ditch defensive
barriers in heavily-fortified and mined positions.
It is thought the main assault, a joint attack by
Peshmerga and Iraqi army soldiers, will be
launched in March and could mark a deadly
turning point for IS as they fight to cling to
territory.
Last year, the Iraqi army faced a humiliating
defeat by IS fighters as 30,000 US-trained
soldiers turned and ran under attack from a
few thousands jihadists who then brutally
executed thousands of stragglers.
Sources say vengeful Iraqi commanders have
vowed that no IS fighter will be taken alive.
IS, whose frontman is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
stems from a group of Saddam Hussein
loyalists and military chiefs who morphed the
organisation from al-Qaeda two years ago.
They stormed Syria, opposing President Bashar
al-Assad, overrunning oil depots to swell their
multi-billion pound war chest and took
advantage of the conflict that has taken
250,000 lives and given rise to millions of
refugees.
The group is known as Daesh in the Middle
East. They have footholds in the Middle East,
Africa and Asia.
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