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Video Shows Suicide Bomb Attack on a Peshmerga Gathering

(Al Ansar Media Foundation)
Al Ansar Media Foundation released a video of a car suicide bomb attack on a gathering of the members of the Kurdish Peshmerga militia in the village of Khorsabad, 15 kilometres northeast of Mosul.

According to the video, the attack was executed by a 23-year man identified as Abu Hamza al Ansari. The 12-minute video was produced in 2008.

Al Ansar media is the mouthpiece of an insurgent group called Ansar al Islam.

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