Hero British Army veteran taking on crazed ISIS jihadists high on drugs in Syria and Iraq - By Chris Hughes

Sniper Allan Duncan is fighting alongside Kurdish forces and has revealed ISIS are selling girls as sex slaves for cigarettes

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.

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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.

Gulf War One and Northern Ireland veteran Allan told how he witnessed one horrific IS attack in Syria.
He said: “It was relentless. IS was 2,000 yards away. Then maybe 50 fighters attacked, some as close as 50 yards trying to overrun us but were beaten back.
"IS have syringes attached to their clothing so that if they are shot they can give themselves a boost.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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“We take care of prisoners, according to the Geneva Convention. Peshmerga say there is no reason to lower ­themselves to levels of IS cruelty.”
Allan, who recently returned from the front line after a 12-month stint there, claimed Western ­intelligence chiefs were warned years ago about the growing threat to the West from IS but ­astonishingly never acted.
He said: “Kurdish intelligence ­gathering is pretty accurate and very good.
"They told the West IS was spreading and would be a huge threat inside and beyond Iraq and Syria and they were ignored, unbelievably.
“Now Western intelligence agencies are falling over themselves to get ­information about IS from the Kurds.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

Culled from The Mirror