The Marine security detachment guarding the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa,
Yemen left no operational weapons behind as troops evacuated the
country, a senior Marine official with knowledge of the movement told
Marine Corps Times.
Officials with the Sanaa airport told the
Associated Press earlier today that Houthi rebels seized more than 25
official U.S. vehicles in the wake of the hasty departure of embassy
staff, some with personal weapons left inside.
Pentagon spokesman
Col. Steve Warren told reporters that the embassy's Marine security
guard detachment destroyed larger weapons, including machine guns, and
added that he believed they had turned over personal weapons to Yemeni
officials because they could not take them on commercial flights.
But
the Marine official, who asked that he not be identified because he was
unauthorized to discuss the situation, said no working Marine weapons,
whether crew-served or personal rifles and sidearms, were seized or
handed over as the troops departed.
"No Marines handed over a functional weapon to anybody," the official said.
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