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ISIS Releases Photos of Militants Using U.S. M113s as VBIEDS

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SIS militants have loaded U.S. M113 armored personnel carriers and are using them as vehicle born IEDs against Iraqi Security Forces, according to photos release by militants with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

U.S. forces rarely drove the M113s brought to Iraq outside the wire because the vehicles were so susceptible to buried improvised explosive devices. Rather than ship the aging armored personnel carriers, U.S. officials left many M113s with the Iraqis after U.S. troops returned home. ISIS militants have since taken those M113s in northern Iraq since overrunning Iraqi army bases.

The photos released by ISIS show the M113s driving through side streets of Amiriyat al Fallujah in eastern Anbar province. The photos of the M113s are then followed by explosions, supposedly of explosive-laden M113s hitting Iraqi Security Forces positions.

ISIS first disseminated the photos on Twitter before they were picked up by the Long War Journal.

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from ISIS Releases Photos of Militants Using U.S. M113s as VBIEDS | Defense Tech

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May God have mercy on the innocents caught up in this disastrous fight and may damnation find those who fight it.
 
@SvenSvensonov - Brother, how would you entertain the proposition that it may be worthwhile for the US Administration to consider the Jeffersonian Principles of Non-Interventionism once more ?

Destabilized regions whether to oust a military dictator or something else don't always go according to plan !
 
@SvenSvensonov - Brother, how would you entertain the proposition that it may be worthwhile for the US Administration to consider the Jeffersonian Principles of Non-Interventionism once more ?

Destabilized regions whether to oust a military dictator or something else don't always go according to plan !

Selective interventionism is the path I want the US to take. We shouldn't completely disengage ourselves and let individuals like ISIS, formerly known as AQI, run across the globe murdering all who stand in our way. But we also shouldn't go around causing problems where none formerly existed. I value our defense commitments with Japan and our defense presence in South Korea, our presence being the primary reason a return to fighting hasn't occurred, but I would love to see us disengage from the Middle East completely and leave the nations in the region to grow some balls and solve problems without our help. Our economy is growing, and would be even better without us fighting everything we see, but we cannot afford to go completely isolationist in a globalized world. No longer is burying your head in the sand an option. Sometime you have to fight, but you should always choose your battles carefully and this is the problem we have most.
 
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Selective interventionism is the path I want the US to take. We shouldn't completely disengage ourselves and let individuals like ISIS, formerly known as AQI, run across the globe murdering all who stand in our way. But we also shouldn't go around causing problems where none formerly existed. I value our defense commitments with Japan and our defense presence in South Korea, our presence being the primary reason a return to fighting hasn't occurred, but I would love to see us disengage from the Middle East completely and leave the nations in the region to grow some balls and solve problems without our help. Our economy is growing, but would be even better without us fighting everything we see, but we cannot afford to go completely isolationist in a globalized world. No longer is burying your head in the sand an option. Sometime you have to fight, but you should always choose your battles carefully and this is the problem we have most.

Sorry for being off-topic, but, can you please let me know about your opinion about Russia, and their new aggressive policy and what should we do about them?
 
@SvenSvensonov - Brother, how would you entertain the proposition that it may be worthwhile for the US Administration to consider the Jeffersonian Principles of Non-Interventionism once more ?

Destabilized regions whether to oust a military dictator or something else don't always go according to plan !
blaming the U.S when it's these fanatics causing all this death,destruction, and terror. we liberated Iraq and the rats came out of the sewer to cause chaos and force there extreme interpretation of Islam on the region.
 
blaming the U.S when it's these fanatics causing all this death,destruction, and terror. we liberated Iraq and the rats came out of the sewer to cause chaos and force there extreme interpretation of Islam on the region.

If you're going to burst the sewerage pipes open who else should shoulder at least part of the blame ?

I'm just saying that invading countries to oust dictators leads to severe destabilization and out of that vacuum 'this' happens; maybe there are lessons to be learned from Iraq, Libya and to certain extent Afghanistan for what many are calling and have been calling for a while now as the intervention in Syria !

Things don't go always to plan and whatever Saddam or Gaddafi were they sure as hell weren't the fanatics that have ripped apart the very social fabric of Iraq and Libya !
 
Sorry for being off-topic, but, can you please let me know about your opinion about Russia, and their new aggressive policy and what should we do about them?

My opinion of Russia? It's a nation of more than just one person and condemning or applauding it as a whole would be disingenuous. I don't like Putin, but have little to dislike about much of the rest of the Duma. I liked Medvedev. Their new policy? It's not new, it's the same as during the Cold War, but is largely like our own except they annex the territory of other nations while we use our economic and political clout to achieve the same effects. What should we do about them? We should engage them as equals, solve our problems and move forward away from this stupid rivalry and press on as friends.
 
If you're going to burst the sewerage pipes open who else should shoulder at least part of the blame ?

I'm just saying that invading countries to oust dictators leads to severe destabilization and out of that vacuum 'this' happens; maybe there are lessons to be learned from Iraq, Libya and to certain extent Afghanistan for what many are calling and have been calling for a while now as the intervention in Syria !

Things don't go always to plan and whatever Saddam or Gaddafi were they sure as hell weren't the fanatics that have ripped apartthe very social fabric of Iraq and Libya !
This!

If you break it, you fix it!
 
If you're going to burst the sewerage pipes open who else should shoulder at least part of the blame ?

I'm just saying that invading countries to oust dictators leads to severe destabilization and out of that vacuum 'this' happens; maybe there are lessons to be learned from Iraq, Libya and to certain extent Afghanistan for what many are calling and have been calling for a while now as the intervention in Syria !

Things don't go always to plan and whatever Saddam or Gaddafi were they sure as hell weren't the fanatics that have ripped apart the very social fabric of Iraq and Libya !

aye I wish Saddam and Gaddafi where still alive they kept the rats in the sewers, but too little too late now to blame the U.S for the problem.

we gave them the gun and bullets it's the terrorists that uses it.
 
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