Confronting Terror: A Soldier's Unsettling Encounter in Kirkuk

“We were on an early morning raid. Two separate raids going on by Peshmerga. Kill/capture type raids on IS1$ sleeper cells in the city.

We took prisoners back! Now it’s known that they hate dogs. So I got my dog, big German Shepherd, took him up to one of the prisoners, removed his hood and allowed the dog to get inches from him…

The guy was pleading and begging, I couldn’t understand him nor did I give a fuck. The dog didn’t touch him although part of me was inhuman for a second and thought about letting him chew his face off!

But I just wanted him to feel and experience real fear just like all his victims had at his hands. Don’t know what happened to him as he got took away by the secret police. Fuck those cunts.

I seen their rape videos and all sorts. I am human and not an animal hence why I didn’t allow the dog to chew on his face.”

- Kurdish Commando. Commando Brigade. Kirkuk, Iraq. 2016.