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yaSalam - Militan Negara Islam di Iraq utara mempunyai sistem pertahanan udara moden mudah alih yang mampu menembak jatuh sebuah pesawat penumpang, akhbar Bild am Sonntag Jerman yg melaporkan memetik agensi perisikan asing di negara ini.
Menurut laporan media yang disiarkan pada hari Ahad, Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) memaklumkan kpd Bundestag Jerman ancaman pada sesi tertutup minggu lepas.
Agensi perisikan Jerman mengatakan bahawa Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS) militan yg terletak di utara Iraq telah memperoleh sistem pertahanan udara dari senjata tentera yang ditawan pd Tentera Syria, menurut laporan itu.
Militan IS telah memperoleh 1970 model serta sistem pertahanan udara manusia mudah alih moden (MANPADS). Sistem peluru berpandu permukaan-ke-udara ringan boleh dilepaskan dari bahu dan dikendalikan oleh satu orang.
"Tidak seperti senjata pertahanan udara, MANPADS adalah mudah utk digunakan, militia hampir tidak terlatih dpt senjata api yang tepat," kata laporan itu, sambil menambah bahawa senjata adalah sangat berbahaya utk mendarat atau berlepas pesawat.
Pihak berkuasa Jerman masih blm mengesahkan laporan tersebut. Beberapa sya-rikat penerbangan termasuk Austrian Airlines dan Qatar Airways, masih terbang di ruang udara di Irak utara mengawal pelampau.
GERMAN Intel WARNS ISIS Can Shoot down
PASSENGER planes - report
PASSENGER planes - report
Islamic State militants in northern Iraq have modern portable air defense systems that are capable of shooting down a passenger plane, Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported citing the country’s foreign intelligence agency.
According to the media report published on Sunday, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) informed the German Bundestag of the threat at a closed session last week.
The German intelligence agency said that the Islamic State(IS, formerly ISIS) militants located in northern Iraq have obtained air-defense systems from the captured military arsenal of the Syrian Army, according to the report.
The IS militants have obtained the 1970s models as well as modern man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS). These light-weight surface-to-air missile systems can be fired from the shoulder and operated by one person.
“Unlike other air defense weapons, MANPADS are easy to use, barely-trained militiamen can fire the weapon accurately,” the report said, adding that the weapons are especially dangerous for landing or taking off aircrafts.
German authorities have not yet confirmed the report. Several airlines, including Austrian Airlines and Qatar Airways, still fly in the airspace over northern Iraq in control of the extremists.
(Kurdish peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants in Zumar (Reuters/Ari Jalal)
Terdahulu beberapa laporan muncul mengatakan bahawa militan di wilayah itu memiliki MANPADS. Khususnya, militan anti kerajaan menyerbu pangkalan udara Tabqa di utara-tengah Syria, yang membolehkan mereka utk mengambil kawalan ke atas keseluruhan Raqqa propinsi tersebut- kini kubu IS - pada bulan Ogos. Para militan dilaporkan merampas sebuah cache dari permukaan-ke-udara peluru berpandu mudah alih disimpan di sana. Pada bulan Oktober, terdapat laporan oleh tentera Iraq yang IS pelampau telah MANPADS di gudang mereka.
Militan IS - dinilai oleh Amerika Syarikat sebagai pengganas dibiayai yang terbaik di DUNIA - telah merampas petak besar Syria dan Iraq utara dan yang mendirikan kekhalifahan memproklamirkan diri di Timur Tengah.
Sebuah koalisi pimpinan Amerika Syarikat melancarkan serangan udara menya-sarkan kedudukan militan di Syria pada bulan September. Ini serangan menyertai Amerika Syarikat operasi udara terhadap IS di Iraq yg bermula sebulan sebelum itu.
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Earlier several reports emerged saying that the militants in the region were in possession of MANPADs. In particular, the anti-government militants stormed the Tabqa air base in north-central Syria, which enabled them to take control of the whole Raqqa province– currently an IS stronghold - in August. The militants reportedly seized a cache of the portable surface-to-air missiles stored there. In October, there were reports by the Iraqi military that IS extremists had MANPADs in their arsenal.
The IS militants - assessed by the US as the best-funded terrorists in the world - have seized large swaths of Syria and northern Iraq and established a self-proclaimed caliphate in the Middle East.
A US-led coalition launched airstrikes targeting the militants’ positions in Syria in September. These strikes joined US air operations against the IS in Iraq which began a month earlier.
On Sunday, the US military and partner states conducted 12 airstrikes on the IS positions in Iraq, the US Central Command said. Five separate airstrikes were conducted by the US military against IS targets in Syria in the city of Kobani, US officials added.
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