Before Killing James Foley, ISIS Demanded Ransom From U.S.

[Kaleva]

94. Kind of vague article

An example:

" Iraqi officials confirm that they have captured sophisticated arms from ISIS fighters in Iraq that were originally supplied by outside powers to forces considered to be anti-al-Qa'ida in Syria."

I don't see in the article an explanation as to what these supposedly sophisticated arms were. IS, then ISIS, overran Mosul and Tikrit using rather basic weapons such as assault rifles and rockets launchers along with heavy machine guns and light cannon mounted on the back of pickup trucks. Nothing sophisticated about that. And if one looks at armed IS men, their weapons are almost all of Russian origin.

Not trying to say Russia equipped IS but such weapons are very common in that region and that is what IS captured, bought, or traded for.