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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/21/isis-video-america-s-air-dropped-weapons-now-in-our-hands.htmlOn accident, I'm sure. And why are they allowed to have a Twitter account that serves as a 'media arm'?????
"An ISIS-associated YouTube account posted a new video online Tuesday entitled, Weapons and munitions dropped by American planes and landed in the areas controlled by the Islamic State in Kobani. The video was also posted on the Twitter account of a3maq news, which acts as an unofficial media arm of ISIS. The outfit has previously posted videos of ISIS fighters firing American made Howitzer cannons and seizing marijuana fields in Syria.
ISIS had broadly advertised its acquisition of a broad range of U.S.-made weapons during its rampage across Iraq. ISIS videos have showed its fighters driving U.S. tanks, MRAPs, Humvees. There are unconfirmed reports ISIS has stolen three fighter planes from Iraqi bases it conquered.
The authenticity of this latest video could not be independently confirmed, but the ISIS fighters in the video are in possession of a rich bounty of American hand grenades, rounds for small rockets, and other supplies that they will surely turn around and use on the Kurdish forces they are fighting in and around the Turkish border city."
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Air drops are not an exact science....but don't let that ruin your hair on fire fauxrage against President Obama du jour...
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Has arrived
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)bluesbassman
(19,373 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)PAProgressive28
(270 posts)And "these things happen." Yeah. Let's just shrug it off. Maybe we need to stop arming rebels and these things will not just happen.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)All Fucked Up.
As fucked up as a left-handed football bat.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)We also dropped medical supplies, ammunition and cold-weather clothing on the Nazis in the winter of 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. "On accident. I'm sure"
(insert distinction without a difference here to better validate bias)
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Sold WMD's to Hussein. We make mistakes. Cmon!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)We're once again trying to micromanage things thousands of miles away without a clear idea of what we're doing, who we're doing it for, and a bunch of people with a reputation for swiping arms away from their intended recipients has . . . swiped the arms away from their intended recipients! I'm so surprised, you could knock me over with a feather.
The only thing our country believes in anymore is violence. The obvious solution is to flood the area with even more arms and weaponry, in hopes that some of them will fall into the right hands - whoever that is. If this was a pool hall, we'd call it the spray and pray method of shooting pool. As long as the arms manufacturers get paid for their wares, this is all just fine with our leaders and the people who elect them. No sense doing anything else, as our brilliant strategy is clearly working precisely as intended.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Not a bfd if some stuff gets in their hands. Isis is throwing everything at the Kurds an losing.
Estimates are 1500 or so Isis x'd out. The story here is how hard the Kurds fight with small arms and how the US isn't listening to Turkey anymore.