According to sources The New York Times and Al Jazeera, the CIA was again unable to control whose hands gets American weapons shipped to the middle East. Kalashnikovs, mortars, antitank grenade launchers, which the United States and Saudi Arabia sent to Jordan for transmission to the fighters of the Syrian opposition, turn to the black market. Former CIA officer Jack rice notes that as a result of the actions of Washington, such cases occur for several decades.
The weapons that Saudi Arabia and the CIA supplied through Jordan Syrian opposition fighters, often stolen and sold on the black market. This is stated in a recent report, based on anonymous accounts by American and Jordanian officials. This information was provided to The New York Times and Al Jazeera.
Delivery of the CIA and Saudi Arabia are carried out in the framework of the program equip and train Syrian opposition fighters. They include Kalashnikov assault rifles, mortars and anti-tank hand grenade. The cost is millions of dollars.
The Jordanian military who participated in the corruption scheme, spending their earnings to buy SUVs, iPhones, and other luxuries.
A specialist in international law and former CIA officer Jack rice notes that the supply of arms from the United States, unfortunately, often do not accrue to those for whom they were intended.
“If you remember all the operations conducted by the CIA, cases like that happen for decades. Honestly, the most recent events are reminiscent of the Mujahideen and the CIA in Afghanistan. More precisely, the inability to control, in whose hands weapons,” says former CIA officer Jack rice.
According to him, America is always a challenge. Although the weapons should do in Syria and Northern Iraq, this does not mean that’s where it eventually will be, I’m sure rice.
“It can be in Western or Eastern Europe, the southern republics of the former USSR, or even in Moscow — we have no way to predict. Once we release the weapons from their hands, and it can go anywhere,” concluded a former employee of the CIA .
