---
title: "Wild Pigs Kill 3 ISIS Fighters, Restore Some Karmic Balance To The Universe"
date: "2017-04-25"
modified: "2017-04-25"
authors:
  - name: "Adam Weinstein"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/adamweinstein/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/boars-kill-isis-militants-restore-karma-iraq/"
categories:
  - "Analysis"
  - "Around the World"
  - "Middle East"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "central command"
  - "ISIS"
---

# Wild Pigs Kill 3 ISIS Fighters, Restore Some Karmic Balance To The Universe

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Karma is a real motherfucker. So are wild boars. On April 23, a menacing squad of ISIS fanboys got acquainted with both, according to [The Times of London](<https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/isis-militants-killed-by-wild-boars-bc022dlqm?CMP=Sprkr-_-Editorial-_-TheTimesandTheSundayTimes-_-News-_-Imageandlink-_-Statement-_-Unspecified-_-ACCOUNT_TYPE>):

*A herd of wild boars has mauled three Islamic State militants to death and injured five others in Iraq while the extremists were setting up an ambush, Iraqi locals have claimed.*

*The militants had taken cover in a bed of reeds near fields in the Hamrin mountains, about 55 miles southwest of Kirkuk, when they were attacked by the animals on Sunday, a local sheikh told The Times.*

*The group were planning a surprise attack on local tribesmen who had formed anti-Isis brigades and fled to the mountains when the militants seized the nearby town of Hawija in mid-2014.*

“It is likely their movement disturbed a herd of wild pigs, which inhabit the area as well as the nearby cornfields. The area is dense with reeds, which are good for hiding in,” anti-ISIS leader and local tribal chief Sheikh Anwar al-Assi told The Times.

The pork-tenderized militants had recently committed 25 execution-style killings in Hawija, a nearby village known as an ISIS stronghold, al-Assi said.

Wild boars are no damn joke, as anyone who’s ever frolicked in the Florida Everglades, Georgia lowlands, or Texas hills can tell you. Get a numerous-enough herd of big-enough pigs, and the nasty snorters can turn you into a processed pork product with a quickness.

Then again, anybody who’s ever sat in on a tribal council or jockeyed a SIPR terminal in Mesopotamia knows that Iraqi sheikhs say a lot of fun things, some true, some not.

This is a single-sourced story, and it happens to accord with [the karmic sensibilities of a lot of vets](<https://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/05/bin-laden-pig-fat-bullets>) who’ve fought Jihadi Joe in the long war. So, you know, temper your S2 briefing slides accordingly.

But oh, brother, how I want to believe.