The Kurdish gun fixer taking aim at Islamic State
In Iraqi Kurdistan he is simply known as Uasta - "the fixer". For the past 30 years, Mohammed Fadil has been turning hardened steel salvaged from car suspensions into delicate firing pins and other weapon parts to repair the guns used by Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces against their many enemies. Now those weapons are being […]Marius Bosch writes for Reuters:
In Iraqi Kurdistan he is simply known as Uasta - "the fixer".
For the past 30 years, Mohammed Fadil has been turning hardened steel salvaged from car suspensions into delicate firing pins and other weapon parts to repair the guns used by Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces against their many enemies. Now those weapons are being turned on Islamic State in the battle for Mosul.
Fadil joined the peshmerga - which means "those who confront death" - when he was 15.
