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| U.S. Gives Iraq Army 250 Mine-Resistant Armored Vehicles |
| 2015-01-07 |
| [AnNahar] The United States has donated 250 mine-resistant, armor-protected vehicles (MRAPs) to the Iraqi army for use in its campaign against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist group, U.S. ambassador Stuart Jones said Tuesday. Sorry, East Peoria Police Department, you'll have to wait a month or two... "The number one threat to the Iraqi security forces are roadside kabooms and vehicle-borne bombs," said Jones, whose country is leading a multinational coalition in air strikes on IS in both Iraq and Syria. "These vehicles will save Iraqi lives and enable Iraqi security forces to win the fight" against IS, he said in a statement. The statement did not give the cost of the MRAPs, or say when they were to be delivered, but did say Washington gave Iraq $300 million in weapons, materiel and training last year. This included 12,000 sets of body armor, Kevlar helmets and medical kits, as well as counter-IED (homemade bomb) equipment, and included vehicle maintenance, and tank and helicopter maintenance training. The United States will also deliver 10,000 M16A2 assault rifles to the army early this year. The military aid comes under the strategic framework agreement between the two countries. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Dollars to donuts half are deadlined within 6 months. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-01-07 19:54 |
| #5 Why not give amoebas a super computer? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-01-07 13:09 |
| #4 Chris, your reasoning applies to the donors as well as the donees. Graft and corruption are major reasons for the building of these arms in the first place. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-01-07 11:13 |
| #3 I'm glad we keep building all these arms to just give them away time and again. No matter what you these fuckers, they're to fuckin stupid, corrupt or whatever to use them. Why, thank you chris. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-01-07 10:23 |
| #2 I'm glad we keep building all these arms to just give them away time and again. No matter what you these fuckers, they're to fuckin stupid, corrupt or whatever to use them. |
| Posted by: chris 2015-01-07 10:10 |
| #1 Are they taking back the one they gave my local police force? It takes up half their parking lot. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-01-07 07:32 |