The Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) found themselves on the receiving end of an organization that used deception as a tactic of attack when British Special Forces entered the city of Raqqa, dressed head to toe in traditional female Islamic ankle length gowns to hide their identities.
The Daily Express reported that members of Britain’s Special Air Service posed as the wives of ISIS chiefs in an effort to sneak through the capital of the Islamic caliphate, and locate the house belonging to a senior chief of the Islamic State that they were after.
The group then sent the coordinates to the air force, who had an aircraft awaiting their signal. After obtaining the location of the building, a drone was dispatched to deliver a hell-fire missile that destroyed the building and all of its occupants.
Nearby ISIS soldiers, hearing the destruction, ran out into the street to find 8 burqa wearing women. They had just enough time to feel surprised as the Special Forces soldiers were lifting up their gowns to expose the assault rifles and grenades which were then used on the radical Islamists. The troops were forced to fight their way out of the town after Islamic extremists were alerted to the destruction.
The raid was a resounding success, and reports surfaced afterwards that ISIS was looking for anyone who had helped the “spies” as well as the “women” that were sent in to infiltrate the town.
The tactic of hiding under burqas to pull of attacks has been used by Islamic extremists for years. In 2009, a burqa clad suicide bomber was able to infiltrate a Somalian government ceremony to kill 19 people. The fear of terrorists hiding under the female Islamic garb has led some countries to ban burqas in public places, or face stiff penalties.
It would be ironic and interesting to see if the Islamic State, facing the same tactics that they have used on Western societies, issue a ban on the burqa in their own caliphate.
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