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| Eastern Europe Sells Weapons to 'Syrian Mercenaries', But Says No to Refugees |
| 2016-08-05 |
| [Sputnik] Eastern and Central European states have sold weapons worth $1.3 million to the Middle East, with some arms shipments ending in the hands of "Syrian mercenaries," including al-Nusra Front and Daesh, but these countries have refused to welcome refugees fleeing violence that they have helped to fuel, Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (DWN) asserted. $ 1.3 Million? Amateurs! I've seen higher valued private collections According to a report unveiled last week, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia and Romania sold weapons primarily to Saudi Arabia, but also to Jordan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Turkey. Some of these armaments were then transferred to armed opposition and Islamist groups fighting in Syria and Yemen, two countries that have been ravaged by foreign-sponsored wars. The research was conducted by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Their findings cover shipments made since 2012. This business is so lucrative that Eastern and Central European states approved arms export licenses "despite ample evidence that weapons are being diverted to Syrian and other armed groups accused of widespread human rights abuses and atrocities," researchers observed.These licenses are supposed to guarantee where weapons end up and do not allow arms re-transfer to third parties. Yet this is exactly what has happened. Were funding transfers conducted via unmarked aircraft in the middle of the night ? The arms shipments from Eastern and Central European countries to Syria rebels have only made matters worse in the country plagued by five and a half years of violence. They have "greatly contributed" to hundreds of thousands dying and millions fleeing to neighboring countries and Europe, DWN noted. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 So are the Germans upset that they're not making money selling arms, or that the Eastern and Central European states, for the most part, aren't sharing in the "joys" of Merkel's immigration policy? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-08-05 14:16 |
| #2 No mention by Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten of German firms selling equipment to Iran's government that could be used to refine uranium and make nuclear weapons, oddly enough. But those weren't passed on to terrorist groups, to whom Iran only gives conventional missiles and such. But anyway, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, and Turkey are considerd legitimate countries, the kind that are entitled to buy weaponry. If the article's targets were selling to international arms dealers or to agents of various terror groups that would be different. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-08-05 11:24 |
| #1 Is this a variation on the old "build a wall around the place and give them plenty of ammo" concept voiced around here? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2016-08-05 10:37 |