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ISIL claims to have seized US weapons airdrop meant for Kurdish soldiers

ISIL has claimed to have recovered a US airdrop of weapons meant for Kurdish soldiers battling the terror group in northern Syria.

A propaganda video released by ISIL overnight purports to show its militants rifling through crates filled with grenades and RPG charges.

The US military is supplying the Kurdish PKK army in their fight against jihadist soldiers in the key battleground of Kobane, near the Turkish border.

In the clip, a masked ISIL soldier opens the bundle, revealing weaponry and military supplies that he says will now be used against its intended recipients.

“These are some of the American aids that were dropped for the atheists in the PKK,” he says.

“Praise be to God, this is booty for the mujahedeen.”

The SITE intelligence group, a media service that tracks extremist social media accounts, published the video.

SITE has previously released brutal vision depicting the executions of western journalists at the hands of ISIL militants.


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American officials said they were working to confirm the video’s veracity.

"We're still taking a look at it and assessing the validity of it," Pentagon press secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby told reporters.

"I do want to add, though, that we are very confident that the vast majority of the bundles did end up in the right hands.”

Rear Adm Kirby said the US military was highly skilled at dropping supplies from the air.

US Central Command, leading the country’s military efforts in the Middle East, said in a statement they were aware one of 27 airdrops had gone astray, but claimed it had been destroyed in a follow-up airstrike to prevent “the supplies falling into enemy hands”.

The airdrops use GPS-guided parachutes to deliver the bundles.

US supply deliveries to members of the Yazidi minority stranded on a mountain in northern Iraq In August were accurately dropped around 80 percent of the time, officials said.

The town of Kobane is surrounded by ISIL fighters, with Turkey criticised for not allowing humanitarian aid to enter the town to help Kurdish fighters, traditionally a political foe.

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/...us-weapons-airdrop-meant-for-kurdish-soldiers

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Who did not see this coming?

Airdrops can be obtained by anyone that is near them when they land, unless you drop them into a military base which is hard when you have to factor wind, and all other factors, a quick landing in a plane is much smarter.

Now we have terrorists who have more guns and ammo.
 
This probably belongs in the Islamist Taking Over Iraq thread (this is the same core battleground) or the defunct ISIS thread.

Overall this is one airdrop, when one thinks of the quantity of weapons supplied by Western nations to people we've ended up fighting... it's an airdrop in the ocean. Just looks good on the news, much less abstract than a 3-year negotiation via Swiss intermediaries :D
 
One airdrop out of many over the course of who knows how many years goes into the wrong hands, & you have the nerve to title this thread as if we've been stupid for doing it in the first place. Then, you follow it with this idea?
a quick landing in a plane is much smarter.
You mean a plane that becomes a priority target for insurgents to attack, possibly ending in the same result?

You have such an agenda against America, it's almost laughable.
 
Saw the video and one thing I noticed is that the Americans do an amazing job at packaging all that stuff together, it could just be the compact size of modern artillery or an illusion but there is much more inside those crates/boxes than one might think.
Now we have terrorists who have more guns and ammo.

I don't think it will make that much of a difference. Some of these terrorist organisations have a lot of bomb bucks to blow, I don't think one or two care packages will be of that much use, not to mention the middle east is practically constructed by used weaponry and I bet they have some pretty large arsenals at their disposal.
 
One airdrop out of many over the course of who knows how many years goes into the wrong hands, & you have the nerve to title this thread as if we've been stupid for doing it in the first place.

This.

You mean a plane that becomes a priority target for insurgents to attack, possibly ending in the same result?

And the fact that a 'quick' landing was suggested, as though landing a plane, unloading cargo and taking off again takes less than 10 minutes. "Keep the engines on, mate, I'll only be two minutes."
 
It would be an interesting strategy to drop one "legit" cache of weapons and ammo to drop their guard, then drop a few more that are boobytrapped.
 
They've performed probably hundreds (thousands?) of supply drops in the area since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and this is the first I've heard of one immediately falling into enemy hands. I concur with the thread title. Way to go America!


Though in order to immediately rectify this mistake, I'm guessing they will do a few more supply drops to this specific group. And by "supplies" I mean "bombs".
 
Who did not see this coming?

You jumping at the chance to start yet another thread complaining something gun and/or relating to the US, or that one airdrop out of many happened to end up in ISIL hands?

You also forgot to thank Obama.
 
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Are we just ignoring that most of ISIL's gear is American stuff taken from Iraqi forces? Historically, this is how militant groups usually get their hands on weaponry, whether it's given to them when they're allies with western countries, or taken from invading forces (eg. Russia).

I guess arm-waving sensationalism is super-fun.
 
None of the items in the video are US weapons. Not saying we didn't drop the cargo but the weaponry was not of US origin.
 
Australian troops with heavy machine guns have, as recently as the 20th Century, been unable to fight emus. Way to go Australia, way to go.

To be honest we could go on all day about one misdirected airdrop which has boosted enemy stocks by about 0.001% and we'd get nowhere, it's actually completely unimportant. All we're doing is helping with Muslamical publicity.
 
Lol, guess It's easier to bomb countries when the evil terrorists have arms. Lol, oops we dropped some weapons in the wrong place and now we have to spend more on fighting Isis... Weapons are paid for anyway, no matter who gets them.

Wonder what happend to those Toyota trucks that were supposed to go to 'moderate' forces?
 

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