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21Oct14
US supply drop to Kurds in the hands of the Islamic State
Amaq News, an unofficial pro-Islamic State news channel, has released a video showing Islamic State fighters in possession of a US supply drop intended for the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) in the vicinity of Kobane, or Ayn al Arab.
The video shows an Islamic State fighter boasting about the captured bundle. The supplies include many fragmentation grenades, gear, and RPG rockets.
The United States began airdropping weapons and ammunition to Kurdish forces in Kobane after the Islamic State began to make serious gains in their weeks old campaign to take the city. According to The New York Times, the United States dropped 27 bundles of weapons, gear, and ammo for the Kurds. The United States has also launched more than 135 airstrikes near Kobane in the last few weeks, with the intensity only picking up the last few days.
It is also important to note that the YPG is the Syrian affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PKK is a designated foreign terrorist organization according to the US State Department.
Update:
On Oct. 23, 2014, the Pentagon admitted that a stray bundle dropped by Air Force C-130's was indeed captured by the Islamic State.
[Source: By Caleb Weiss, Threat Matrix, The Long War Journal, NJ, 21Oct14]
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