Iraqi pilots mistakenly dropped food and ammunition to ISIS terrorists in western Anbar.
ISIS reportedly murdered over 300 soldiers in Saqlawiyah, north of Fallujah, during the assault last week.
ISIS posted this photo of the massacre.
News from Saklawiyah (Saqlawwiyah)
Apparently another massacre of Iraqi soldiers there.
An investigation is underway.
Rudaw.net reported:
The Iraqi Air Force mistakenly dropped food, water and ammunition to militants from the Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS), thinking they were their own soldiers, US television NBC reported Tuesday.
The channel quoted Hakim al–Zamili, an Iraqi MP from the fervently Shiite Sadrist bloc, saying that an investigation is underway.
NBC said the supplies were supposed to help besieged Iraqi army officers and soldiers who had been fighting Islamist extremists for one week in Shaqlawah and the village of Al-Sijar in the country’s western Anbar province.
“Some pilots, instead of dropping these supplies over the area of the Iraqi army, threw it over the area that is controlled by ISIS fighters,” said al-Zamili, who is also a member of the parliament’s Security and Defence committee.
“Those soldiers were in deadly need of these supplies, but because of the wrong plans of the commanders in the Iraqi army and lack of experience of the pilots, we in a way or another helped ISIS fighters kill our soldiers,” al-Zamili said.
The channel also quoted a brigadier-general in Iraq’s Defense Ministry, who did not want to be identified, confirming the incident and saying it took place last week.
The pilots also dropped water to the terrorists.
