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The Kurds need anti-tank weapons to take on the captured Abrams tanks the ISIS fighters are using:
Military.com
Military.com
US Sending Arms to Kurds in Iraq
Associated Press | Aug 11, 2014 | by Matthew Lee
SYDNEY -- The Obama administration has begun directly providing weapons to Kurdish forces who have started to make gains against Islamic militants in northern Iraq, senior U.S. officials said Monday.
Previously, the U.S. had insisted on only selling arms to the Iraqi government in Baghdad, but the Kurdish peshmerga fighters had been losing ground to Islamic State militants in recent weeks.
The officials wouldn't say which U.S. agency is providing the arms or what weapons are being sent, but one official said it isn't the Pentagon. The CIA has historically done similar quiet arming operations.
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