[McGruff]

I thought ISIS got all of Iraq’s good equipment when Iraq’s army turned tail and ran from them.

[Robert A Cook PE]

These Shi’ite Iraqi groups, which receive significant support from Iran, have operated under official sanction as members of the country’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) since 2014. In 2016, PMUs officially became part of Iraq’s armed forces.

The U.S. government apparently only decided to make clear that it did not approve of the Abrams going to the PMUs sometime after October 2017. At that time, PMUs that had acquired Abrams took part in the Iraqi government’s swift and violent campaign to crush a push for independence in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish Region.

Gosh. What else changed between mid-year 2016 and 2017, when the US government began dooing something about the loss of US hi-tech weapons to ISIS-HAMAS-Hezzbollah?

[whitney69]

Tanks have been buried all over the desert, many up near Syria.

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