20,000 U.S. M-16s Stolen from Unguarded Warehouse in Kuwait

April 11th, 2013

And Now: America’s Uncleared War: Nearly 20,000 Foreign Mercenaries Fight In Syria

Thanks to alvinroasting for sending this in.

Via: Global Research:

The civil war in Syria has opened opportunities for foreign mercenaries and about 20,000, financed by Afghan drug trafficking, have been fighting in that Middle East country, according to Russia’s Federal Drug Control Service Director Viktor Ivanov.

“Transnational organized crime groups can ensure an inflow of a huge number of criminals and mercenaries from certain countries to any part of the world with proceeds from heroin sales,” Ivanov was quoted by the Ria Novosti news agency as saying on Thursday.

He said 15,000 to 20,000 mercenaries were concentrated in Syria “destabilizing the situation in that country,” he said without giving any evidence to support his claims. It was transnational criminal groups and not Taliban who pose the greatest threat in Afghanistan, he added.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said earlier this month that Syria was turning into a “center of attraction” for international terrorists in the ongoing civil war between rebels and government forces.

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Part of the Syria op?

Via: World Tribune:

Kuwait has reported the theft of a massive amount of U.S. weapons. The Interior Ministry said thieves broke into a warehouse and stole a huge amount of firearms and ammunition. The ministry said 20,000 U.S.-origin M-16 assault rifles and 15,000 rounds for 9mm pistols were stolen.

“There were no guards during the break-in,” the ministry said on April 7.

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