(18.8.2014) The Pentagon said on the 17th that “the strikes destroyed three ISIL armed vehicles, an ISIL vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft artillery gun, an ISIL checkpoint and an IED emplacement.” They were meant to damage ISIS’ positions around the Mosul dam, which the group captured on August 7, sparking fears that ISIS could flood parts of Iraq.

What went unmentioned by the Pentagon is that those armed vehicles and artillery guns they bombed were likely paid for with American tax dollars.