The Man With The Bulletproof BMW Saves 70 From ISIS

When Ako Abdulrahman came under attack from ISIS militants advancing around the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, he realized he needed protection. After shopping around, the Kurdish Peshmerga fighter settled on a bulletproof BMW, and paid $10,000 for the early 1990s model at a car auction. Then, on October 21st, dozens of ISIS militants carried out a coordinated series of attacks, targeting security forces and civilians in several neighborhoods. 64 died, 86 ISIS militants were killed, and more than 100 civilians and security personnel were wounded. Many of them were left stranded because of ISIS militants' indiscriminate firing, while others were trapped by the terror group's snipers shooting from rooftops. Abdulrahman knew he had to act. He told CNN, "I told myself, this is the right time to help people, this is the right moment to do it. I am a fighter and I have a bulletproof car, shame on me if I can't help." He drove the armored BMW through the city, returning again and again to collect the injured, as ISIS gunmen peppered the vehicle with bullets. Abdulrahman says he used his car to transport more than 70 of the wounded to safety, and also ferried the bodies of the dead away from the attack. The courageous war hero said, "In my car, I carried Sunni, Shiite, Kurds, Turkmen and Christians. I felt like I am truly Iraq and this is who everyone should be."