Wednesday, January 07, 2015

US Selling Another 170 M-1 Abrams Tanks To Iraq After ISIS Captured 40 Last Summer

US Selling Another 170 M-1 Abrams Tanks To Iraq After ISIS Captured 40 Last Summer | Zero Hedge:
"Remember when shortly after ISIS' stunning and rapid ascent to power it was revealed that a key reason for the terrorist organization's blistering success were the M-1 Abrams tanks, armored transport trucks, Howitzers and countless Humvees made in the US, sold to Iraq and subsequently captured by ISIS?
It appears that the US has decided to restock ISIS, if only indirectly. 
As Matthew Aid's Strategypage.com discloses, the US is now selling a whopping 170 M-1 tanks to Iraq in order to restock the 40 lost to ISIS last summer, and then some.
And since ISIS will promptly recapture a substantial portion of this latest batch, the US now appears to have found a fully covert, backdoor ISIS-restocking supply channel: one where Iraq pays to US military contrators (using US taxpayer aid money) such as General Dynamics, and subsequently the inventory mysteriosuly finds its way to barbaian, headcutting terrorists."

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