Talk:US weapon deliveries to Syrian rebels

Gaytandzhieva has a long two-part article on armswatch.com, in English. That may be the basis for RT reporting. It looks like she got serious internal documents, and I'd rather stay away from this as I do not know who is feeding this serious information (or perhaps disinformation); it can be judged on its merits by those who care to read it. It was also on Cassad in Russian.

With that disclaimer, I note that Yemeni IS ammunition was --she says --routed through Afghanistan, as a shipment to Afghan national army. And I doubt she supplies Afghan army papers detailing how and by whom it was diverted to Yemen.

Likewise, Syrian weapons were sent to Qatar, and, I gather, "tunneled" from there somehow. Like maybe to good jihadis who turned up to be lacking, or whatever.

Now, in the end of the day, smuggling weapons to 'convenient' bad guys, --or not even useful, just paying, is a world-wide problem. There are well-known leaders in arms sales, and those huge sales are to no angels on the receiving side. Likely, considerable part of it ends up with even less angelic characters, not listed on the envelopes.

So, some broader perspective on --and then some distance from --this very detailed investigation --Resup (talk) 20:36, 5 September 2019 (UTC)