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| Ask not from whom the AK-47s flow |
| 2016-04-16 |
| BLUF: [The Economist] Some of these guns leak into local bazaars, or are seized when militias capture government arsenals. A study by Armament Research Services (ARES) of ammunition used by IS in an area of Iraq in 2015 found that 17% of it came from the Balkans. Videos on social media show Syrian militias using Croatian rifles--almost certainly among 10,000 supplied to Iraqi forces as part of a €100m ($120m) deal in 2014-15. In 2012 Croatian arms bought by Saudi Arabia were flown to Jordan for distribution to Syrian rebels in a deal backed by the CIA. Emphasis added. With suspicions confirmed, you may wish to stop reading at this point. Damn those ARES convicts, always sticking their bloody noses into things. Yes, that does appear to be a Millett LRS-1. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 How about "through whom"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-04-16 05:18 |