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The United States resumed arms shipments to al Qaeda in Syria

США возобновили поставки оружия для «Аль-Каиды» в Сирии

A loud increase in the contingent of U.S. special forces in Syria once in six times, that is just on 250 persons, were transactions of a cover for the shadow of arms, “al-Qaeda”. This is evidenced by the British military transport publishers Jane’s, which recorded the delivery of 7 April from the Romanian port of Constanta to the Jordanian port of Aqaba of the party of Bulgarian weapons from the arsenals of the Soviet period.

She became the second after sending the 5th of December in Turkey (Tasucu port) from the General goods in containers 117 tons in 2007, which included, in addition to Kalashnikovs and machine guns, 50 anti-tank launchers of plants, “Factory”, 800 missiles and 162 tons of the explosives. Marine supplies from Romania to the middle East in charge of the Maritime transport Command of the U.S. Navy through the company Transatlantic Lines and Geysir, which won the tender (IMO: 7710733).

Thus, the United States violated the agreement on ceasefire in Syria on 12 February and arming al-Qaeda, repeating the tactics of re-dzhihadistky groups in 2012 and 2014. We will remind, in the beginning of military action in Syria, the Pentagon is arming private terrorist army in Syria, despite the monitoring mission of the Arab League and the UN. And in 2014 had forwarded the weapons intended for the Iraqi army, militants*.

The choice of ATRA “Factory” due to their resemblance to an improved version of the ATGM “Fagot” 9K111 Fagots ATGW, which is used by the Syrian army. It is obvious that the Pentagon plans to use them for any humanitarian provocations like the shelling of peaceful settlements, humanitarian missions, borders with adjacent countries in order to accuse the army of Bashar al-Assad in war crimes she did not commit.

This time the weapons were transferred directly by the Pentagon or with the help of the Turkish army in the group of “moderate armed opposition”, which both participated in peace negotiations in Geneva. According to observers on the ground, including those who oppose the Syrian Arab army, these groups interact on the battlefield with al Qaeda and systematically convey her half of the obtained weapons.

Given that the CIA has bought from Bulgaria Soviet weapons for $500 million, including 18.8 thousand man-portable grenade launchers and anti-tank systems 700 “Competition”, this is not the last batch of shipping supplies. The command of the Maritime traffic of the U.S. Navy in 2015, has launched two tenders for transportation of arms from the Romanian port of Constanta to the Jordanian port of Aqaba after a one-year break in cooperation with Bulgaria.

With the end of 2014 weapons of the ISIS and al-Qaida worked together with the Saudis, the UAE. However, instead of the legacy of the Bulgarian arms, they preferred more modern NATO weapons, in particular, anti-tank BGM-71 TOW. Delivery go through the company SaudiArabian Cargo and Etihad Cargo to Tabuk on Saud-Jordanian border, or on the Franco-American airbase “al-Dhafra” in the Emirates. The resumption of weapons that the Soviet model identical to the Syrian, confirms the preparation of provocations against government forces in Syria

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