• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

Islamic State underground lair littered with U.S. made guns and ammo, copies of the Qur’an

Nov 26, 2015 9:31 am By Robert Spencer

They got the U.S.-made guns and ammunition from those “moderates” we armed to fight against them.

“Inside secret underground ISIS bomb-making lair found littered with US-made guns and drugs,” by Oli Smith, Express, November 26, 2015:

AN ASTONISHING series of secret tunnels carved by hand by ISIS militants have been found littered with drugs, copies of the Quran and US-made ammunition.

The underground tunnels, used by ISIS militants to hide from bomb raids, were discovered under Sinjar, which has only recently liberated from ISIS control.

The extremist fighters used the tunnels to move undetected and avoid coalition airstrikes.

The besieged Iraqi town had been held by Islamic State for more than a year before being recaptured by Kurdish troops.

The amazing network of abandoned tunnels appeared to be wired with electricity, with a series of sleeping quarters set out, lined with sandbags and curtains for privacy.

Food and cooking utensils were also found around the passages as well as clothes hung on washing lines.

Prescription drugs and painkillers were seen on the floor, along with copies of the Quran and US manufactured boxes of ammunition and bomb-making equipment.

The narrow tunnels, carved with jackhammers or other handheld equipment, were just tall enough for a man to stand in….

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Qur'an Tagged With: Sinjar


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. Vyx says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 10:55 am

    So the Obama administration in arming the our enemy and yet congress does nothing. It seems to me that they are welcoming their Muslim Overlords with open arms.

  2. mortimer says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 10:56 am

    HILLARY DID THIS. Anyone who has been a soldier will be troubled beyond measure that ISIS is using US weapons!

    Of course, Lying Hillary gave them the weapons as part of her bungled adventures in Libya. The Saudis were in an unholy rush to dislodge the heretical Allawites from Syria (and commit a genocide of them…no doubt).

    Assad isn’t the problem, but SALAFITE ISLAM FROM SAUDI ARABIA IS THE PROBLEM! There is no moderation is Salafism. It’s a death cult.

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 26, 2015 at 11:35 am

      That sums up the Sunni half of the problem with Islam. And sadly virtually nobody in MSM will call out Hilary and Barry bin Obama out on this. The Islamic State exists because of Obama’s regime. It is supplied and continues to exist because of Obama’s regime. Period.

      • Tom Hillgardner says

        Nov 27, 2015 at 6:15 am

        Stop being a dumbass: If GWB hadn’t invaded Iraq ISIS would never exist. You’re just trying to cover up the fact that it was Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz that “masterminded” the destabilization of the entire region allowing ISIS to arise out of the power vaccuum.

        • Dr. Divinity says

          Nov 27, 2015 at 7:56 pm

          IT MATTERS NOT who started the problem….Bush or whoever….what does matter ……is anybody got the guts to stop it.

  3. mortimer says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 11:01 am

    We knew they were living in tunnels. It’s Vietnam all over again. The only way to defeat a dug-in army is to dig under them…and then fill their tunnels with fire. This is the dirtiest form of warfare and requires boots on the ground…under the ground too…a lot of them.

    Whole families and hostages will be held prisoner in those tunnels too. ISIS is using human shields. They have no respect for life.

  4. pdxnag says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 11:09 am

    So, did the Korans also say Made in the U. S. of A.?

    Just thinking, we could print a modified Koran (and hadith etc) where we stripped out or wrote in red the two thirds of it all calling for slaughter of Jews and other Infidels. Anyone disagreeing with the non-seditious, non-violent one could be forever excluded.

    We could say this is the one Bush referred to when he called Islam the religion of piece. Did Bush already have one?

    • Infidels of the world unite says

      Nov 26, 2015 at 3:19 pm

      It won’t work because there are too many muslims out there.
      I heard that the “official” koran in China is a translated and modified version, and some violent content has been taken out. The muslims found out about it and started learning Arabic, getting Arab imams, etc.

  5. Don McKellar says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 11:37 am

    What should be done is for exploding copies of the Koran to made up and air dropped across the Middle East.

    • Mark DeFord Eletion says

      Nov 26, 2015 at 11:51 am

      Distribute non-exploding korans made from pig manure.

  6. JasonP says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 1:24 pm

    And the Koran? But Obama says ISIS is not Islamic!

    One another note CNN has a story about a newly published Koran. Apparently there was a problem with the old one: http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/25/living/study-quran-extremism/index.html

    “I never advise a non-Muslim who wants to find out more about Islam to blindly grab the nearest copy of an English-language Quran they can find,” Mehdi Hasan, a journalist for Al Jazeera. Christians or Jews may pick up a Quran and find their worst fears confirmed.”

    It goes on to describe how this whitewashing attempt sometimes has footnotes that take up most of the page. How will this Koran be accepted by Muslims? “… there has been some criticism of the translation by Muslims who call it ‘too Sufi.'”

  7. Lesley says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 1:42 pm

    “They got the U.S.-made guns and ammunition from those “moderates” we armed to fight against them.”

    Frankly, I suspect that they didn’t just get the US made guns from the ‘moderates’ that we’re arming… I think there’s good reason to believe that they ARE the moderates that we’re arming.

    Why we’re trying to take out Assad is beyond me. Sure he’s done some bad things, but look at the population he’s governing. Under Assad, religious minorities have freedom and relative protection.

    I’m horrified that our government is aiding the forces of those who want to destroy our whole way of life. Horrified.

    • Bezelel says

      Nov 26, 2015 at 9:32 pm

      Lesley, I know what you mean. What I don’t understand is why isn’t arming the enemy in a time of war considered treason?

      • Dennisr says

        Nov 27, 2015 at 7:56 am

        Govt s afraid of pursecuting Obama and shutter at theback lash of indicting (sp?) him.
        This mans not stupid but has a plan- and we’re the pawns.

  8. Wayne Tallaksen says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 1:48 pm

    Has anyone wondered where all the weapons and Ammo for internal Government agencies might of have really been going? Aiding and abetting enemies of the U.S.A. used to be known as Treason! Obama has been doing nothing but arming Sunni Jihadist franchises like Al Qaeda in his stupid pointless proxy war against Syria`s Assad! And then this blithering idiot releases all the money to Iran guaranteeing them an A-Bomb! And the really hilarious thing is both the Sunni Jihadist and The Shiite Jihadist have one amazing goal in common, Death To America!!

  9. ? says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 6:21 pm

    Maybe the conspiracy theorists were right maybe the US Is funding terrorism…notice all the drugs, they’re clearly US thug influenced…

    This is the reaping 666

  10. John Johness says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 10:20 pm

    It’s the third Friday of Safar – the month of battles. I wonder what they have planned.

  11. Jay Boo says

    Nov 26, 2015 at 10:47 pm

    LAIR
    “Inside secret underground ISIS bomb-making lair”

    What sings a call of duty to prayer? It hides in this wretched devil’s lair
    Seduced by lyrics from a prophetic liar in a song of Satan’s unholy desire

  12. Baucent says

    Nov 27, 2015 at 1:49 am

    It’s interesting in their scramble to abandon Sinjar, the Jihadists left behind their copies of their Holy book. I would have thought that would have been their most valued possession? Apparently not, as there is no mention of rifles being abandoned, just surplus ammo they couldn’t carry. The Koran’s were tossed because they were excess weight. That they are using US made rifles is not surprising as they captured huge numbers of weapons when the captured Mosul last year. American rifles are prized over worn out AK47’s.

    Something that is curious about the Kurd’s capture of Sinjar, was that ISIS barely resisted the Kurds and escaped out a “back door” when the city should have been surrounded. Was a deal made to let them escape?

  13. LarryK says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 11:17 am

    They got the vast majority of their American weapons when the Iraqi army fled Mosul.

    “why isn’t arming the enemy in a time of war considered treason?” — some pretty fevered imaginations out there!

    The US got rid of Saddam Hussein. Chaos ensued in Iraq. The US got rid of Muammar Gaddafi. Chaos ensued in Libya. Now we’re trying to get rid of Assad in Syria. Is there a pattern here?

  14. Angemon says

    Nov 28, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    The extremist fighters used the tunnels to move undetected and avoid coalition airstrikes.

    The besieged Iraqi town had been held by Islamic State for more than a year before being recaptured by Kurdish troops.

    The contrast is blinding.

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • Wellington on Chief Rabbi of UK Says It’s ‘Alarming’ That 44% of Muslims Are Anti-Semitic
  • job on Gingrich: 2020 Election is the ‘Biggest Theft Since 1824’ – But It’s Even Worse Than That
  • Mauricio on Uighur leader: ‘We’re actually quite worried’ about what Biden might let China get away with
  • sidney penny on India: Police make first arrest for ‘love jihad’ under new law
  • gravenimage on Canadian Mental Health Association studies Muslim women’s mental health due to ‘discrimination’ and ‘hate crimes’

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.