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big_dog

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5. the Kurds are fighting quite bravely, thank goodness they are there...
Mon Oct 6, 2014, 02:23 PM
Oct 2014

Arin Mirkan stayed behind to launch surprise attack on advancing militants
It is the first known case of a Kurdish woman launching suicide attack on IS
Twitter tributes claim she has left behind two young children

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2782092/Mystery-surrounds-fate-Kurdish-female-fighter-poster-girl-reports-emerge-killed-bullet-avoid-taken-hostage-ISIS.html#ixzz3FOWMQ81x

Peshmerga poster girl said to have shot herself to avoid capture
Ceylan Ozalp, 19, said to have committed suicide during fighting in Kobane
Turkish media and politicians said she ran out of ammunition and used her final bullet to kill herself rather than face rape and murder at hands of ISIS
However reports have been contradicted by Kurdish forces fighting in Syria
They say she is still alive and continuing to bravely fight against the militants

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