Posted on 10/06/2014 10:44:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Baghdad: In its fight in Syria and Iraq, the dreaded terror group, Islamic State or ISIS, has been using ammunition from the United States among other countries as per reports.
As per reports in New York Times, field data gathered by a private arms-tracking organisation suggested that weaponry sent to Syria and Iraq to help the governments there had passed to the militants. This had in turn helped the rise of ISIS and had added to their combative strenght.
One of the ammunition that the ISIS has used in the war has been the rifle cartridges from the US.
This essentially means, as per the report, that the security forces that have been given the ammunition don't have the wherewithal to maintain custody of them.
It is also said that the ISIS has been able to gather weapons from other anti-government groups in Syria that have joined its ranks. They may have also purchased weapons from Syrian rebels who receive them from foreign donors.
Other means of ISIS getting weapons may be battlefield captures and deals with corrupt members of the security forces in Syria and Iraq.
For example, after the terror group seized a Syrian air base near Hama last year they got hold of a big haul weapons and ammunition.
Moreover, investigations have said that more than eighty percent of the ammunition that was recovered and said to belong to the ISIS was manufactured in China, the former Soviet Union, the US, post-Soviet Russia or Serbia.
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Because the Iraqi "Army" deserted their posts. Sickening that we have to blowup our own Humvees.
So THAT’S why the U.S. government has been buying up so much ammo over the last few years...
That also means they are using rifles from the U.S.
The average AK is not chambered in 5.56...
RE: Because the Iraqi “Army” deserted their posts.
How many percent of these Iraqis actually JOINED ISIS instead?
One of the ammunition that the ISIS has used in the war has been the rifle cartridges from the US
That also means they are using rifles from the U.S.
The average AK is not chambered in 5.56...
(*Turkey*)
“How many percent of these Iraqis actually JOINED ISIS instead?”
Better question is how many were Muslim extremists all along and founded ISIS
I wonder if they have any bricks of .22 LR.
Well, they did pick up US supplied arms, armaments and vehicles abandoned by the cowardly Iraqi military that are valued in the hundreds of millions in US dollars.
Probably a large chunk of the Sunnis.
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