Islamic State Seized Large Numbers Of U.S. Military Vehicles, U.S. M1A1 Tanks, Other Weapons In Defeat Of Ramadi; ISIS Running Ads In Lebanese Newspapers For Help To Maintain/Operate U.S. Military Equipment

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The Islamic State’s seizure of Ramadi was also a U.S. weapons bonanza for the terrorist group. As Iraqi troops fled the field of battle in fear, ISIS moved in quickly to confiscate the U.S. military equipment and weapons they left behind. According to numerous news outlets, the Islamic State seized “dozens of pieces of U.S. military equipment, including tanks, armored personnel carriers, and artillery pieces,” as the Iraqi army disintegrated. a Pentagon spokesman, Col. Steve Warren, estimated that: “a half dozen U.S. tanks were abandoned, a similar number of artillery pieces, a larger number of armored personnel carriers, and about 100 wheeled vehicles — like Humvees. Some of the vehicles were in working condition; and, some were not…as they hadn’t been moved in months,” he added. But, it didn’t take long for the Islamic State to find a way to overcome this obstacle — as the group had already been running advertisements in Lebanese newspapers and elsewhere, including social media — recruiting personnel who can “operate and maintain U.S. military equipment.” Last year, the Islamic militant group seized a cache of U.S arms that included a number of U;S. M1A1 Abrams Tanks, as well as Russian-made Mig-21 jet fighters; and, the group was [at the time] said to be holding a Syrian fighter pilot hostage — in order to train ISIS fighters to fly them. Last year, according to the website, Fusion, “U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon was informed that “ISIS had raided a Gulf War weapons depot containing 2,500 artillery shells loaded with toxic – Sarin gas.”

All this, and the POTUS of the United States warned about the threat of climate change to a group of graduating cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. We have found the enemy — but, one big hint. It isn’t climate change; and, it requires something well beyond — “strategic patience.” V/R, RCP