Anbar governor Ahmed al-Thiyabi recently accused ISIL of booby-trapping homes and livestock in and around Ramadi.
"Terrorist elements from ISIL have opened a new terrorist page to exact revenge on citizens, who reject them and support the security forces, by booby-trapping their homes and livestock and blowing them up by remote control," he told Mawtani.
"The Iraqi forces managed in the last two weeks to protect about 78 homes, booby-trapped by al-Qaeda using improvised explosive devices (IEDs), oxygen and cooking gas bottles they blow up at night as the citizens sleep," he said.
"ISIL has resorted to this method to exact revenge on these families, in acts that killed or wounded more than 10 people in Ramadi and its suburbs," he added.
"ISIL now resorts to booby-trapping animals such as sheep, cows and stray dogs, by strapping explosives to them and letting them roam for distances until they reach a suitable place, then detonating them by remote control," said Anbar emergency forces commander Brig. Gen. Mohammed Rasheed al-Aliyawi.
"This vicious tactic was repeated at least 10 times in the last two weeks, because of their inability to recruit more suicide bombers," he told Mawtani. "They steal such animals, which are a key source of daily income, from citizens in villages and rural areas."
In Albu Thiyab, ISIL elements strapped around eight kilogrammes of TNT to a dog, then tied it to the outer wall of a vacant house, al-Aliyawi said. When the security forces passed by, they blew up the dog using a remote control device, causing a number of deaths and injuries.
"We have drawn up a plan to avoid such methods and have alerted the security forces to avoid animals and barns and to exercise caution when entering them," he said.
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