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Saudis Buying Balkan Arms for Syrian Rebels
[An Nahar] Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... has been supplying Syrian rebels battling the regime of  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Light of the Alawites... with arms bought from Croatia, according to The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Citing unnamed U.S. and western officials, the newspaper reported late Monday that the Saudi-financed "large purchase of infantry weapons" was part of an "undeclared surplus" of arms left over from the Balkan wars in the 1990s and that they began reaching anti-regime fighters via Jordan in December. That was when many Yugoslav weapons started showing up in YouTube videos posted by rebels, it said. Since then, The Times added, officials said "multiple planeloads" of weapons have left Croatia, with one quoted as saying the shipments included "thousands of rifles and hundreds of machine guns," as well as an "unknown quantity of ammunition." A spokeswoman for the Croatian Foreign Ministry told The Times that, since the start of the Arab Spring, the Balkan country had not sold any weapons to either Saudi Arabia or the Syrian rebels. Saudi and Jordanian officials meanwhile declined to comment, the newspaper added. Posted by: Fred 2013-02-27 |
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