[Focault's Pendulum]

However, Iraqi officials said that much of the US aid had been “useless” because it was dropped from 15,000ft without parachutes and exploded on impact.

If this is true, whose spectacularly stupid idea was this?

[gleeaikin]

Read the technical link at Comment 5 and then ask yourself how trustworthy comments by Iraqi officials who no doubt are nowhere near the mountain, thanks to it being surrounded by ISIS, are likely to be. Would you rather trust our military technical advisors or Iraqi officials?