U.S. Weaponry Continues To Fall Into The Hands Of Al Qaeda In Syria

An Islamist militant with the Nusra Front holds a US anti-tank TOW missile seized from moderate rebel group Harakat Hazm.Twitter

Sputnik: Gifts From Uncle Sam: Al-Qaeda Wages War in Syria With US Weaponry

The Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, has released a grateful video, where they openly thank the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which the US has touted as a “moderate opposition group”, for supplying them with US-made anti-tank TOW missiles (“Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided").

A recently released video shows an Al-Nusra Front field commander thanking the FSA commanders for giving his forces TOW missiles, according to a report released by the Iranian news agency FARS.

The agency reminds readers that the two groups, the Al-Nusra and the FSA, formed an alliance in March, the Army of Conquest, or Jaish al-Fatah in Arabic, to fight against the forces of President Assad.
Since then, they have fought together “at almost every single battle in Aleppo, Lattakia, Hama, and Idlib Governorates of Syria.”

Update: How US and Russian arms fell into ISIS' hands (CNBC)

WNU Editor: This is not the first time that U.S. weapons have ended up in the hands of Al Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra .... Syria: al-Qaeda Nusra Front shows off huge cache of US weapons seized from moderate Harakat Hazm rebels (IBTimes).