OOPSIE! "Video Reportedly Shows US Airdropped Weapons Destined for Kobani Into ISIS Hands"

[KoKo]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/22/us-reportedly-airdropped-weapons-isis-hands
YouTube video depicts munitions destined for Kurdish fighters in Kobani reportedly obtained by ISIS fighters
by
Lauren McCauley, staff writer

Fighters with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (or ISIS) are claiming to have obtained a cache of weapons from the U.S. military after it airdropped bundles of small-arms ammunition and weaponry destined for Kurdish fighters in Kobani.

A video reportedly released by ISIS and posted to YouTube on Monday by A3maq News shows a masked man standing beside a parachuted bundle of boxes, which he proceeds to open revealing an array of weapons including mortars and grenades.

Speaking to reporters late Monday, Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby acknowledged that the weapons were "of the kinds of materials that [were] dropped," which he said included small-arms ammunition and weaponry. Kirby stated that the Pentagon is "very confident that the vast majority of the bundles did end up in the right hands," adding that they are "only aware of one bundle that did not."

Kirby said that the Pentagon is currently investigating the authenticity of the video.

This is not the first instance where it was revealed that the U.S. military is currently engaged in a war against ISIS fighters that are arming themselves with munitions from the U.S.. A recent report conducted by Conflict Armament Research found that ISIS fighters were using "significant quantities of US-manufactured small arms and have employed them on the battlefield."

The video posted by A3maq News is below:

[belzabubba333]

1. merrry christmas isis here's a box o nades for you

[The Magistrate]

2. I Could Make A Head-Line 'U.S. Drops Food, Ammunition To Nazis' Circa December, 1944, Ma'am

At Bastogne.

Something always goes astray when parachutes are involved. Goes in the 'S.O.S.' file....

[KoKo]

3. Note: I said: "Oopsie..."

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[hifiguy]

4. File under

SNAFU/FUBAR.

[Lurks Often]

5. It happens, tough choice for pilots.

If you fly high enough to avoid light anti aircraft fire, the bundles can miss the target area or drift off target due to wind. Fly low enough for a more accurate air drop you risk getting the plane shot down and the crew killed and fail to deliver the payload.

And that box of grenades at the beginning is weird, we haven't used the "pineapple" grenade in decades, maybe not since the Korean War and what is the point of shipping the grenades without the fuses and/or the bursting charge? I'm not entirely sure this was US equipment, even the boxes look a little wrong, it's been 20 years but the US military stamps ammo containers with all sorts of stuff to identify the contents.

[spanone]

6. fog of war

[ksoze]

7. Maybe the "wayward" ones need to be booby trapped

"Accidentally" dropping some stuff in enemy territory that just happens have tainted water, booby trapped weapons or GPS enabled weapons seems like a capital idea.