Haaretz is reporting that Saeed Mamozeny, a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Party, said 145 ISIS fighters were taking part in the iftar meal, the traditional evening meal eaten when Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset.
It is not known if the militants were purposely poisoned, or just had a case of some kind of food-borne illness, but only about 100 Islamic fanatics walked away from the meal.
Not surprisingly, this is not the first time ISIS fighters have been targeted by using poisoned food. Several dozen Islamic militants were poisoned and died in November, 2014, when some members of the Free Syrian Army rebel group sneaked into an ISIS camp, posing as chefs and poisoning their food, according to the Daily Mail.
The November story on the poisoning of ISIS fighters was initially reported by the now defunct Times of Iraq, described as being an “English news-aggregation blog,” of questionable reliability by the Independent. The Independent had this to say on the story: “It should certainly be taken with a heavy pinch of salt.”
Mosul, with a population numbering over one million people, was taken by ISIS in June. It is the largest city in the group’s self-declared caliphate that now straddles the border between northern Iraq and eastern Syria. Images have popped up on the Internet showing ISIS fighters sitting down to lavish meals during Ramadan.
But apparently those meals are not extended to those living under their harsh regime. Undercover videos show burka-clad women and young boys lined up for rations of food and water in the group’s adopted capital of Raqqa in Syria.
