It says between life and death there is a thin line
But I say between life and death there is a thin wire
We are the military engineering unit of Kurdish Peshmerga
We are (military engineering unit of Kurdish Peshmarga)
We belong to the (supporting forces command 1)
Our duties are protecting the Peshmarga forces in different operations
We opening and cleaning roads and places for them from planted bombs and mines
Second duty: protecting civilian peoples when they return to their homes
We clean their houses, roads and markets from planted bombs and poisonous gases
So people can return to their homes safely
In spite of the important role that the military engineering unit does
We don’t have any sophisticated equipment related to this job
In these operations and these dangerous mission, we do by wire-cutter, wire blade and mine-detector
We will start from here, this is our front line
We will go down
There is a village on the right hand
We will control this road
And these two villages, will be controlled
Are you ready?
I think the operation will start, Sun is coming out
Guys... No one gets off, they are shooting us
He is hiding himself among the trees
He is shooting among the trees
It is okay they are shooting the car
The suicide bomber car is coming
Spread out... spread out
They hit it
Just be careful from the capsule
Be attention two others will explode
Close the door
Which one has exploded?
The first one
We prepare very well but we don’t know what kind of surprises will face us
According to our information there are suicide car bombers in this side
All the red points are booby-trapped houses
There are some roadside bombs, informed us by the intelligence
You should be careful when you go into the village
We are going to go to the place where major Imran was killed there
Why did you bring your kids?
If you don't scare on your life, you should care of your kids
There are many bombs
We had a martyr here
Not for you, but for these little kids, what about them?
I am Peshmarga
Okay, but you have to take care of yourself
Are you from military engineering unit?
I have some experience
You removed these bombs?
Yes take a look
From where did you remove them?
There were seven bombs inside the house
You know what!
When you work to remove bombs
The geography of the area will change
It means you should remove all of them or don't remove any
I don’t touch the bombs on the ground
But the others in my house I will remove them
We are grateful, clean all of them
I don't have to clean all of them, this is your job
It's out of our efforts, they are not few
I disarmed fourteen bombs without mine-detector
Come over here, there are still many of them
Come on, there is one beneath your feet
I know that
What do you know! This is one
Come here... Come here
I know... I know
You know nothing
I cleaned this area and I disarmed fourteen bombs and you are saying you don’t know
I removed thirteen thousand bombs
It is normal you are military engineer
What about you?
Nothing
let us work
Dear brother that is the bomb that you were about to step on it
I know it is there
Don't worry, it's not big deal
You will kill your self
In this place exactly, we had two injuries and a martyr
And here you are talking about four bombs!
Be careful and take care of your kids
This is not what you have studied in Ramadi
Why didn’t you clean entire village?
We do not have ability because they are so many
We just cleaned the road
If you lift it it will explode. Be careful
At work, we do not have many options
Always there are only two
Yes or no, red or blue, cut or not
And sometimes life or death
But the great duty that we have held on our shoulders has left no chance to hesitate
We have to open the way for the Peshmarga forces to come
And this depends on the success of our work
It is true that our duty is removing mines and bombs
But sometime when we know that a bomb is difficult to disarm
We are forced to blow it up in its place
To remove the danger on the Peshmarga and civilians
At first, we collected all kinds of bombs and mines
And we opened a museum for them
After they became tons, We put them in a far place and blew them up
Let's go
Hurry up... Hurry up
After their plans failed when we destroyed thousands of their bombs and mines
ISIS began a new level of planting bombs
They aimed military engineering members as targets to their bombs
They applied new methods of planting bombs to kill us
By this way a new level of fighting began between us
My brother the owner of the house
You can find your air conditioner in the checkpoint Mohammed Qardash
They said your air conditioner is safe at the checkpoint
You can come and take it
What have they left for him!
They pretend to be good people
Sir, there is a bag inside
Maybe they put it for a trick
I got it
Take a look
In order to go and take a bag and also they put a paper on the door
To make you think that this house is safe
Be careful behind the door
It's the wire of capsule
This wire should not be pushed
Take this
Also of their new tactics
They put a new mechanism under the bomb, this is what we call it anti removing
When we disarm the bomb and lift it from the ground, It will explode
Or series of bombs for example they put three parallel bombs
Then we would have been confirmed
But the fourth they put differently and would explode
If these bombs explode, it will cut us into pieces
Stop by the civilian car and tell them to get out of Batnay
Okay, sir
We have good experience to handle all kinds of bombs
But we do not have a special team to deal with poisonous gases and chemical weapons
We are not allowed to leave these kinds of weapons among the forces of Peshmarga and civilians
Therefore we should manage by ourselves
Also we do not have sophisticated equipments to handle them
Hi there? Are you fine?
I'm fine
Is this shop yours?
Yes
We have a mission of cleaning bombs and chemical weapons in this place
I know that
You know?
The second house
No one should stay in Batnay. You should go out
When will you start?
Right now
Get in your car and drive to the entrance of Batnay
When we finish we will return
How long will it take? Hour to two hours
It depends on our work. Now you can go
I will go and tomorrow I will come back
My shop has been destroyed
Is your shop for photography?
Yes, it was
It should return for you again
This one and I had another
You will return
God willing
If you come back, it will return to you
This is armour?
Yes
For what?
If they explode?
If the head goes, what does the body mean?
Do not touch it, we do not have gloves
Shoot it ...shoot it.... open a hole ... still there is a liquid gas remains in the bottom
When we go for any operation and forward the Peshmarga forces
And go to a place that has been left by ISIS
We put in our mind that there are bombs planted everywhere
Streets, doors, windows, socket, even garbage
The only thing that we are sure they can’t plant bombs in it..Is the air
This is a mortar shell, covered with plaster and clay to change its shape to a rock
Friends often told us to be aware of the suicidal bombers
We were replying ironically: we are the real suicidal bombers
They equipped themselves with weapons and explosives or riding in a car
But we go forward to the Peshmarga
And we have just wire-cutter, wire-blade and sometimes mine-detector
We do our work, under the rain shoot of ISIS
Where have you arrived?
We are almost there
Do you have a cougar vehicle
Yes, we have a cougar vehicle
It destroyed the hummer
When our friends or relatives know what our duty is and how dangerous our job is
They say if we were you, we would resign and leave this job
But these kinds of words have never affected our morale
And we are still doing our job, because we see this job as a patriotic duty
Adnan. Where is it?
Don't come. Just point, be careful
Don't touch anything the house will fall apart
It's messy
Take this out
Just take a look, be careful
Let's go
Well done
Show me the capsule, bring it to me
The other thing that helped us in this war was fly cam
The use of fly cam helped us a lot
Saved us from many dangers
Many times we sent it ahead
We knew what was ahead in our way
And by it we could get to many hard places and hidden bombs
And we ruined many of ISIS plans and saved our and many Peshmarga’s lives
At all operations and attacks we are at the front lines of Peshmarga forces
So the first victims are from military engineering
Captain Mamial was the first martyr from military engineering
He was killed by a planted bomb on the road
When he tried to open the way for the Peshmarga at Rabbea attack
At Zummar operation a bombed vehicle faced us
I was obliged to manage the vehicle so that the peshmarga could cross
When I reached I found two bombs under the vehicle. I damaged them then I felt some a light flash
I became unconscious after that two peshmarga helped me and washed my bloody face with water
Thanks for God, I became aware
By this time I got a call from one peshmarga
Sadly he told me that captain Shivan was killed
I became hopeless after this news I forgot my wounds
Because it is so sad to lose a great officer like him who has good experience
Because the war was continuous and we were continuous in our duty
And we didn't have time to explain and understand these new tactics
We were obliged to learn from our mistakes
Before any operation we farewell each other
Because we know there will be martyr and injuries among us
Especially after we informed that ISIS has put precious gifts to those who can kill one of our members
One... Two... Tree
Sometimes one of our members would make a mistake, and the bomb would explode
And then they would tell us this bomb can be disarmed by this technique not by this technique
This capsule explode the bomb
And the other is wire-cutter, give me
And this is cutting
Be careful
The battery has remained
I will remove it also
And this is the battery
And that is the pressure plate, Captain Deedar
And this is the pressure plate
How have they planned !
It has filled of water
Leave it
Don't worry sir ! nothing will happen
Leave it, we will explode it in its place
I won't leave it until I open it
No God, It won't explode, how it will explode !
Captain Deedar... Captain Deedar...
Our death will be with planted bombs and mines
The body will be seriously injured.
So we will be cut into small pieces
So we all decided that if we are killed
Our bodies must be collected, put in sacks and then buried
And they must not show our bodies to our families
We are not afraid of death
We are not afraid of bombs, mines and explosion
But the only thing we are afraid of is being alive after the explosion
Sir, don't go inside Please
The pressure plate of bomb is under the blanket
There is a bomb behind the door
He came to disarm the bomb but another one exploded
Abul Sattar put his foot on the pressure plate of bomb
Do you see this bomb? take a look
There are many planted bombs
He doesn't hear
I said there are many planted bombs in the village
After we lost Captain Mamial , We've lost many members
One of them who was very skilful and brave was major Peshkaft
Don’t pull it
There are two wires, you are right
Don't pull it
Please don’t pull any thing, major Peshkaft
It will not explode
Don’t say that
The major Peshkaft Zuher was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion, while cleaning the Tulaband village from the planted bombs of ISIS group.
Before any operation, everything has its own taste
We try to enjoy everything
Meals, entertainment talks, gatherings with friends and family
Because it's always in our minds this is may be the last time
We may not see this again
What would happen to our life, we give our souls to you Kurdistan
There is the love that you want
There is the union that you want
When we see this destruction and ruination
I get to the real belief that the ISIS is the enemy of the life and humanity
And they came just to destroy the beauty of life and to ruin houses and countries
And any where that they got to nobody has survived
Muslims, Christians, Yazides. Young and old. man and woman
They look at all of them equally
They regard them as their enemy and deserve death
So again they are the enemies of life and humanity
Every country is famous by producing something
And ISIS is famous by producing death
We were expecting all things from this brutal group
And we have seen all kinds of killings and destruction from them
But the day we saw the booby-trapped toys
We were shocked and surprised
I have just realized that they have not any relationship with human and humanity
When I saw those toys
I did not think they could be booby-trapped
But I doubted their place and I said
Why they were put them near the pole
Wait, Gohder ... step aside
During my handling to these booby-trapped toys
I always thanked God that they haven't been touched by any child's hands
I really don't know what to say about those kinds of men
The first toy was not booby-trapped
So the kid could be confident that there is no danger
In order to touch the other and to explode
To those who cross here, you should know that ISIS will remain
In many places and on walls
We will see slogans and symbols that tell ISIS was here
But the clearest sign for their existence is: Destruction and the absence of life
Usually we harvest what we planted, but at the war we harvest what planted by the enemy
They plant death and we harvest it
In order to make the people’s lives safe and protected
Be careful, may be they put another under it
Adnan wait, there are four wires
Yes, these are two pressure plate
Take the shovel
Their capsules are inside
Sometimes I think the game of planting bombs by ISIS
And removing them by us never ends
But we are continuous until they end up us or we end up them
But they should know well
How they have desire of killing, ruination and destruction
Our desire of building, coexistence and continuation is much bigger than their desire
Everywhere that ISIS controlled and attacked it
They did three things there: beheading, planting bombs and digging tunnels
These are their tunnels
Only rats and mice and fearful animals are living in tunnels
So if the ISIS were not mice and rats they wouldn’t hide themselves in tunnels
He couldn't get his head out of the tunnel he used this to look around
We have seen many kinds of men
But we don’t know what kinds of man they are and what is in their minds
But who doesn't care of his life and soul and ready to explode himself and suicide
Surely he will not care about the life of anyone else
In which side Suicide car bombers will come?
From the main road
What is that
They are shooting here
The suicide car bomber is coming
Milan…. Milan... Milan
No no.. it didn't hit it
It exploded.. It exploded
Please foregive me my brother
Mercy
Please foregive me my brother
Keep away from him
He might have got another thing with him
We forget all this exhaustion and tiredness
When we return back from this hell and go forward our paradise to home
And seeing our angels and kids they are alive and happy
Abdulsitar. Mamyal. Shivan. Peshkaft. Dr.Sulaiman. Fakher
And all martyrs and injuries of Peshmarga
Be sure that your sacrifices won't go vain
Your sacrifices have give hope to us and our children
After a long night a new day must shine
If the black clouds gather
They can’t hinder the raise of our flag to the sky of honor and dignity