swordfish Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 (edited) Given the events of the weekend where the US took out an ISIS bigwig SF was reminded of a story I remember from back in 2017...... https://newspunch.com/declassified-documents-obama-ordered-cia-to-train-isis/?fbclid=IwAR3FZ9PbMav1_i3QDH7R3YfW31RUckzRMonVkurnEEJN8Jad65t6Ob0SgCI https://www.newsweek.com/how-isis-got-weapons-us-used-them-take-iraq-syria-748468 The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) got its hands on vast supplies of weapons by taking advantage of U.S. weapons transfers that may have violated international agreements between Washington and its allies, according to a new report. As much as 90 percent of ISIS's arms and ammunition were found to have originated in Russia, China and Eastern European states. The jihadis were able to obtain much of this arsenal as a result of former President Barack Obama's support for rebels in Syria, U.K.-based Conflict Armament Research reported after analyzing 40,000 items recovered by its investigators along ISIS front lines between July 2014 and November 2017. By purchasing "large numbers" of European arms and ammunition and then diverting them to nonstate actors in Syria without notifying the sellers, the U.S. reportedly "violated the terms of sale and export agreed between weapon exporters...and recipients." "The United States and Saudi Arabia supplied most of this materiel without authorization, apparently to Syrian opposition forces. This diverted materiel, recovered from IS forces, comprises exclusively Warsaw Pact–caliber weapons and ammunition, purchased by the United States and Saudi Arabia from European Union (EU) member states in Eastern Europe," the report found, using an alternative acronym for ISIS. "Supplies of materiel into the Syrian conflict from foreign parties—notably the United States and Saudi Arabia—have indirectly allowed IS to obtain substantial quantities of anti-armor ammunition," it later added. ISIS emerged out of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and other jihadi groups in the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and overthrow of its leader, President Saddam Hussein. After announcing its establishment in 2013, ISIS spread into Syria to take advantage of the ongoing war between the Syrian military and the rebel and jihadi groups trying to overthrow it since 2011. In Syria's conflict, the U.S. had been supplying arms to insurgents opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since at least 2012 and, when ISIS began rapidly seizing territory in 2013 and 2014, many U.S.-armed rebel groups were either defeated by the incoming militants or joined them. ISIS reportedly received most of its initial supplies by overtaking Russia-backed Syrian and U.S.-backed Iraqi military positions, but later vastly received a massive boost from the U.S.'s effort to overthrow Assad. As ISIS began to take nearly half the country, the U.S. continued to train and equip Syrian rebels, using local allies like Jordan and Turkey as intermediaries. In its report, Conflict Armaments Group included dozens of photographs of EU-manufactured weapons believed to have been procured by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, shipped to Syrian rebels and later obtained by ISIS, which moved them between Iraq and Syria. These included a powerful anti-tank missile launcher bought from a Bulgarian manufacturer by the U.S. Army and wielded by ISIS only weeks later. Somehow SF remembers a slight reference to moving weapons through Libya and something about an ambassador getting killed.....or something.....IDK..... Edited October 28, 2019 by swordfish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzoron Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, swordfish said: Given the events of the weekend where the US took out an ISIS bigwig SF was reminded of a story I remember from back in 2017...... https://newspunch.com/declassified-documents-obama-ordered-cia-to-train-isis/?fbclid=IwAR3FZ9PbMav1_i3QDH7R3YfW31RUckzRMonVkurnEEJN8Jad65t6Ob0SgCI https://www.newsweek.com/how-isis-got-weapons-us-used-them-take-iraq-syria-748468 Guns don't kill people, people do. Edited October 28, 2019 by gonzoron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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