Arms Windfall for Insurgents as Iraq City Falls (Published 2014)

The insurgent fighters who routed the Iraqi army out of Mosul on Tuesday did not just capture much of Iraq’s second-largest city. They also gained a windfall of arms, munitions and equipment abandoned by the soldiers as they fled — arms that were supplied by the United States and intended to give the troops an edge over the insurgents. The problem is not a new one, but it looms larger now that the

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イラク、Mosulから軍を敗走させた反乱軍は、Iraq第二の都市を手に入れただけではなく、棚ぼたで大量の、武器、軍需品、逃げた兵士の装備などを手に入れたことに。これはUSが、反乱軍に抵抗できるように供給した武器で。