I don’t believe it was ever covered by the mainstream, if anything it was rabbit holed really quickly.
I don’t know where I heard it - but seem to recall that John McCain visited the region and found “good trustworthy Muslims” to give them too, which turned out to be typical jihadis. There’s photos of him with them.
I’m not sure we ever got the missiles back.
Ah yes. I remember seeing that picture, but had no idea of the context of it.
Thank you for that information.