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How ISIS Gets Its Weapons from America
(New Yorker) Dexter Filkins - An ISIS fighter in Ramadi posted a video from a recently captured Iraqi police station. It showed box after box of American mortar shells and bullets. Several Humvees sat abandoned nearby. "This is how we get our weapons," the narrator said in Arabic. "The Iraqi officials beg the Americans for weapons, and then they leave them here for us."