Islamic State Show-Off Their American Made M-16 Rifles

Screengrab of a video released by ISIS showing a training camp where fighters use weapons including American-made M16 rifles. Flashpoint

NBC: ISIS Shows Off Its American-Made M16 Rifles

ISIS appears to be making use of U.S.-made weapons in Iraq.

A video released by ISIS' media arm in northern Iraq purportedly shows more than a dozen of the terror group's fighters undergoing weapons training — on American M16 rifles, according to Flashpoint Intelligence.

"It is noteworthy that the use of American rifles by Islamic State fighters is rare and is only seen in Iraq," Flashpoint said in a research note, using another name for the militant group. "These rifles were likely left by U.S. forces or seized from Iraqi soldiers."

WNU Editor: I suspect that these weapons were taken from dead Iraqi troops or were part of the cache that were abandoned by them when they retreated from places like Mosul or Ramadi. In hindsight .... the U.S. should never have trusted the Iraqi Army with these weapons unless they were supervised and backed-up with a U.S. military presence.