USA to transfer AT4 anti-tank weapons to Iraq in June
AT-4 light anti-armor weapon fired at a tank during fire and maneuver training near Camp Bucca, Iraq, on July 18, 2005. Image credit – U.S. Marine Corps.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Thursday, a senior official in the U.S. Department of State confirmed that the U.S. government plans to hand over 1,000 anti-tank weapons to Iraq by June, pointing out that the Iraqi forces have not collapsed entirely in Ramadi as happened in the city of Mosul.
“Reuters” quoted the US official as saying that, “the United States decided to supply Iraq with anti-tank weapons when the Iraqi prime minister visited Washington last April,” noting that his country “intends to deliver 1,000 of the shoulder-fired AT4 systems in early June. ”
The official, who asked anonymity, added: “ISIS carried out about 30 suicide car bomb to grab Ramadi and about ten of those cars were almost similar in size to the truck bomb that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City in 1995.”