Daesh Leaves Booby-Trapped Copies of Quran on Streets of Iraq’s Liberated Cities
The sneaky booby trap strategy involves leaving Islam's holy book on the streets of liberated cities in Iraq and waiting for locals to pick them up.
Locals who pick up the books, which are said to be hidden in bushes or long grass near the side of the road, could then be blown up, the Sun reported.
The tactic has emerged after Daesh Takfiri terrorists have also left bombs in refrigerators.
While the terrorists have been pushed out of the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, the Iraqi army and voluntary forces have had to deal with hundreds of booby-trapped buildings in the cities.
Iraq has been facing the growing threat of terrorism, mainly posed by Daesh.
The Takfiri terrorist group made swift advances in much of northern and western Iraq over the summer of 2014, after capturing large swaths of northern Syria.
However, a combination of concentrated attacks by the Iraqi military and the volunteer forces, who rushed to take arms after top Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa calling for fight against the militants, blunted the edge of Daesh offensive and later forced the Takfiri group to withdraw from many of the areas it had occupied.
