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U.S. Delivers 3,000 Tons Of Weapons And Ammo To Al-Qaeda & Co in Syria
The United States via its Central Intelligence Agency is still delivering thousands of tons of additional weapons to al-Qaeda and others in Syria.
The British military information service Janes found the transport solicitation for the shipment on the U.S. government website FedBizOps.gov. Janes writes:
The FBO has released two solicitations in recent months looking for shipping companies to transport explosive material from Eastern Europe to the Jordanian port of Aqaba on behalf of the US Navy's Military Sealift Command.
Released on 3 November 2015, the first solicitation sought a contractor to ship 81 containers of cargo that included explosive material from Constanta in Bulgaria to Aqaba.
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The cargo listed in the document included AK-47 rifles, PKM general-purpose machine guns, DShK heavy machine guns, RPG-7 rocket launchers, and 9K111M Faktoria anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) systems. The Faktoria is an improved version of the 9K111 Fagot ATGW, the primary difference being that its missile has a tandem warhead for defeating explosive reactive armour (ERA) fitted to some tanks.
The Janes author tweeted the full article (copy here).
One ship with nearly one thousand tons of weapons and ammo left Constanta in Romania on December 5. The weapons are from Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania. It sailed to Agalar in Turkey which is a military pier and then to Aqaba in Jordan. Another ship with more than two-thousand tons of weapons and ammo left in late March, followed the same route and was last recorded on its way to Aqaba on April 4.
We already knew that the "rebels" in Syria received plenty of weapons during the official ceasefire. We also know that these "rebels" regularly deliver half of their weapon hauls from Turkey and Jordan to al-Qaeda in Syria (aka Jabhat al-Nusra):
Hard-core Islamists in the Nusra Front have long outgunned the more secular, nationalist, Western-supported rebels. According to FSA officers, Nusra routinely harvests up to half the weapons supplied by the Friends of Syria, a collection of countries opposed to Assad, ..
U.S. and Turkey supported "rebels" took part in the recent attack on Tal al-Eis against Syrian government forces which was launched with three suicide bombs by al-Qaeda in Syria. This was an indisputable breaking of the ceasefire agreement negotiated between Russia and the U.S. It is very likely that some of the weapons and ammunition the U.S. delivered in December were used in this attack.
Millions of rifle, machine-gun and mortar shots, thousands of new light and heavy weapons and hundreds of new anti-tank missiles were delivered by the U.S.. Neither Turkey nor Jordan use such weapons of Soviet provenience. These weapons are going to Syria where, as has been reported for years by multiple independent sources, half of them go directly to al-Qaeda.
From historic experience we can be sure that the consequence of this weaponizing of takfiris will be not only be the death of "brown people" in the Middle East, but also attacks on "western" people and interests.
Skyscrapers falling in New York and hundreds of random people getting killed in Paris, Brussels, London and (likely soon) Berlin seem not enough to deter the politicians and "experts" that actively support this criminal war on Syria and its people.
Rocket fire from Syria strikes Turkish border-town
Rockets from Syria have landed inside Turkey’s southeastern border town of Kilis, injuring several people, security sources and privately owned Dogan News agency said on Monday.
It was not immediately clear whether the rockets came from ISIL-controlled Syria. Kilis, which is home to large numbers of Syrian refugees, has suffered repeatedly from cross-border shelling.
Is this Turkish deployed ‘rebels’ – either ‘moderate’ or ISIS – providing an excuse for more cross-border aggression by Turkey?
Turkey aiding al-Nusra ahead of major Aleppo strike: Russia
“Despite progress achieved in securing a ceasefire, Turkey continues to funnel men and arms to al-Nusra Front,” said Lieutenant General Sergey Rudskoy, the head of the Main Operative Department of the Russian General Staff, on Monday.
“Al-Nusra’s men and materiel are being allowed to pass through areas that the US has designated as being controlled by the opposition,” he added while noting that Russia has on multiple occasions called on the US to aid in limiting al-Nusra’s operations.
“It is reliably known that the militants are planning a large-scale offensive with the aim of cutting off communication between Aleppo and Damascus,” he said. “If they are not stopped, we could see a blockade of the northern parts of Syria.”
“The number of settlements that have joined the reconciliation process and signed relevant agreements with the Syrian authorities has risen to 61. A total of 47 statements of intention on cessation of hostilities have been signed with the leaders of armed groups of moderate opposition,” Rudskoy added.
The Russians need to be careful what they wish for – ‘Russia has on multiple occasions called on the US to aid in limiting al-Nusra’s operations’ – they might get it …
US deploys B-52s for bombing in Syria, Iraq
The US Air Force sent B-52 bombers to the Persian Gulf Saturday and plans to use them for bombing raids on targets in Iraq and Syria, according to the Pentagon and the US Central Command, which oversees US military operations in the Middle East. An undisclosed number of bombers will be stationed at Al Udeid air base in Qatar.
This marks the first deployment of B-52s in the Middle East since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, when the huge planes delivered more than 40 percent of the bomb tonnage dropped on Iraqi military forces, incinerating hundreds of thousands of soldiers and destroying entrenched armored units.
The B-52 is the archetypal weapon for saturation bombing …
… sets the stage for more ‘oops, we missed’ in ‘the fog of war’ vein when they bomb the Syrian Arab Army and civilians in Syria.
Rebel defenses collapse in northern Aleppo as ISIS seizes 13 villages in 48 hours
According to ISIS’ official media wing “Al-‘Amaq”, the terrorist group captured the villages of Al-Rai, Tal Safeer, Tal Ahmar, Raghbiyah, Shabaniyah, Tathumus, Quntarah, Qarah Kuz, Qazil Mazrah, Al-Bal, Sheikh Rih, Tilal Hussein, and Fayraziyah after a violent battle with the extremist rebel forces.
The most important site that ISIS recaptured on Monday was Al-Rai; this aforementioned village is imperative because of its location along the Turkish border.
As of now, the terrorist group is attempting to advance to the rebel strongholds of ‘Azaz and Mare’; if they are successful, the Free Syrian Army led forces will have to retreat across the border.
Is the plan to allow ‘moderate’, non-Daesh al-CIAduh to capture the towns of northern Syria, hand them over to Daesh, and then ‘retreat across the border’ to Turkey?
Posted by: jfl | Apr 12 2016 3:27 utc | 58
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