Posted on 05/21/2015 7:29:36 PM PDT by Nachum
The Pentagon said Thursday that an expedited shipment of 2,000 lightweight shoulder-fired weapons should arrive in Iraq next week.
The weapons, according to The Associated Press (AP), are intended to help the Iraqi army stop the Islamic State (ISIS) group's increasingly effective use of car bombs.
The shipment is among a variety of weaponry and equipment the United States agreed to send to Iraq on an expedited basis after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited Washington in April to plead for more help in fighting the extremists.
Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said the shipment of shoulder-fired AT-4 weapons was not in response to the fall of Ramadi over the weekend, although the jihadists’ effective use of enormous car bombs there put a spotlight on Iraqi army deficiencies and prompted the White House to consider ways of strengthening its support for Iraq.
A senior State Department official on Wednesday said the ISIS offensive in Ramadi over the weekend included about 30 suicide vehicle bombs, including 10 with a great deal of explosive power.
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They’re not ground to air missiles.
Biggest shipment needed is testicles.
(Been there, trained the Iraqis, seen the results.)
“Pentagon to Expedite Shipment of Shoulder Weapons to Iraq”
...because ISIS is running a bit low. Not from actually using any of what they have in battle, but they keep shooting them off in celebration. That must drive their leaders crazy.
Nope, they know exactly what they're doing. We're the stupid ones for letting them get away with it.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Unfortunately the only Iraqis with the adequate lower hanging group are fighting for the other side
Shoulder-fired (one use) grenade launchers, basically.
TWA 800, anyone?
Iraq could save the effort of uncrating the weapons and just reship the boxes directly to ISIS.
Really! Why not just ship direct to ISIS and skip the Iraqi Army middleman?
FUBO!
They had M1 TANKS!!! Oh well! Hope that they don’t go to ISIS too.
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