Hezbollah shows off U.S.-made tanks in parade, U.S. military unsure how they got them

Hezbollah showed off U.S.-made tanks in a parade in Syria, which some thought were stolen from Lebanon, but U.S. military officials say that is impossible because they gave the Lebanese military a different model.


Images of the parade, held in Qusayr, Syria, are raising concern about terror groups in the Middle East using U.S. military armored personnel carriers distributed as part of aid to various nations in the region.

While some have suggested the tanks were taken from the Lebanese Armed Forces, which the United States has been supporting in its battle against militant groups in Lebanon. Last summer, the U.S. gave the military about $50 million worth of equipment, including vehicles, grenade launchers and tons of ammunition.

A U.S. State Department official told The Washington Post the vehicles in the pictures are "unlikely" to have come from the Lebanese military, and Pentagon spokesman Chris Sherwood backed the official up, saying "the structural analysis of the vehicles in the picture" does not match those provided to Lebanon.
 [upi.com]
18/11/16
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