The GOP-led House Oversight Committee has written a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin regarding reports of Hamas terrorists using U.S. weapons in their fight against Israel.
“In the letter, authored by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., they ask Austin to appear on Capitol Hill next Monday amid reports that U.S. arms are making their way into the hands of terrorists from Afghanistan and the battlefields in Ukraine,” Newsmax reports.
“The Committee has seen reports that U.S.-manufactured weapons are being redistributed and resold in secondary markets to terrorist organizations, including Hamas,” Comer and Greene wrote, according to the Examiner.
Committee member Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shared the story —and the letter —on X.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
There are emerging reports that Hamas and other terrorist organizations may have obtained American-made weapons. If true, this is unfortunately not the first time military resources purchased by American tax dollars have fallen into the wrong hands.… pic.twitter.com/QMft0l0LCq
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) October 23, 2023
From Newsmax:
According to a Pentagon report, the U.S. left behind $7.12 billion in military equipment in what was heavily criticized as Biden’s hurried, blundered and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. The U.S. bequeathed it to Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in a country controlled by the Taliban, turning that terrorist organization into arms dealers.
Fast forward to now, the U.S has provided Ukraine with more than $45 billion in military assistance alone since the Russian invasion began, and House Republicans have no appetite for repeating the sins of Afghanistan.
More over at Newsmax:
House Republicans sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, asking for a briefing about how closely the Department of Defense is monitoring the flow of U.S. weaponry to Hamas and used in their terrorist onslaught against Israel, it was reported. https://t.co/aT3GkfZ17v
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) October 24, 2023
