Arms Windfall for Insurgents as Iraq City Falls
June 11th, 2014Via: New York Times:
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.
More: 500,000 Flee Mosul
