Saturday, November 5, 2016

Bulletproof BMW Used As A Rescue Vehicle To Save Scores Of Victims During An ISIS Attack In Kirkuk

Bulletproof BMW Used to Rescue Dozens During ISIS Attack. The Drive

Yahoo/Drive: Bulletproof BMW Used to Rescue Dozens During ISIS Attack

In the ongoing war against ISIS in the Middle East, one Kurdish Peshmerga fighter put his life—and his BMW—on the line to protect a city against a terrorist attack.

Using an early-'90s armored BMW he purchased four months prior to the October 21 attack, a Peshmerga soldier named Ako Rahman rescued dozens of citizens wounded or trapped by snipers in Kirkuk—a city in the Kurdish controlled region of Iraq.

"After we arrived at the scene, we saw many wounded individuals among the security forces and civilians and no one was able to approach them due to the IS snipers. Therefore we decided to help those wounded people since bullets could not penetrate my car," Rahman told Kurdish news outlet BasNews.

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WNU Editor: According to the article BMW offered the owner a new car if they could put his car in their corporate museum. His response .... HE REFUSED!!!!!!

1 comment:

Dave Goldstein said...

BMW probably wouldn't pay to have it uparmored.