Posted on 02/08/2015 6:33:38 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Ambassador David Hale said the equipment includes more than 70 M198 howitzers and over 26 million rounds of ammunition and artillery "of all shapes and sizes, including heavy artillery."
Islamic extremists have launched several attacks on Lebanese troops over the past months in areas near the Syrian border, killing and wounding scores of troops. The most serious attack occurred in August, when members of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and the Islamic State group captured two dozen Lebanese soldiers. They have killed four of them and still hold the rest.
Lebanese and American officials attended a handover ceremony Sunday at Beirut's port.
"We are very proud of this and this is top-of-the-line equipment. This is the best that there is in the marketplace. It's what our soldiers use," Hale said. "I know that in a matter of days it's going to be what your brave soldiers are using in the battle to defeat terrorism and extremism that is pouring across the border from Syria."
Hale told reporters that Lebanon has become the fifth-largest recipient of U.S. foreign military assistance.
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January 2014, I saw a planeload of weapons worth $165 million take off for a Mideastern destination. $25 million is a drop in the proverbial bucket.
Oh great. Now we’ll be fighting our own weapons next time we ‘just have to go in’ and save more Muslims from other Muslims.
The really big need is for shipments to the Kurds. They are tough and committed and like the US. We shouldn’t put them last in line.
Once again we are supplying the weapons that will be used against us probably by the very people we are giving them too. Unbelievable...
I wouldn’t have such a problem with this if we had SOLD the weapons but continually “giving” such weapons costs each and every tax payer in this country. We should not be the world’s “welfare giver”.
‘wrong’ depends on your pov
0bama wants to support and arm IS/ISIS/MB and has been for 1-2 years
I agree but with Obama at the helm I’m not surprised he is funding the world’s terrorists on the backs of American tax payers.
Eeeee...the shipment will...fall into the hands of Hezbollah. I think we can all count on it.
In Obama’s pov, he is killing 2 birds with 1 stone (pun intended) giving the terrorists the means to cause more terrorism AND also draining the American economy in the same stroke. In his mind it is brilliant! In American’s minds it is evil!
Things are changing so fast in that whole area, do we really know which hands are the wrong hands anymore?
Hope and change....
Lebanon was far better off with Assad ruling Syria decisively.
We have been a sponsor of terrorism for years. This is just another example of it.
$25 million in weaponry?
At todays gun prices, it’s only a pittance.
It should have been sent to the Khurds.
Islamic extremists have launched several attacks on Lebanese troops over the past months in areas near the Syrian border, killing and wounding scores of troops.That'll help the Lebanese 'army' defend the Hezbollah occupation of Lebanon, as well as prop up Assad's regime.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine....
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