Click on this image to see an interactive map of Syria that shows the locations of this week's major events. Richard Johnson/National Post
Gun-Smuggling Business Is Booming Thanks To Syrian Uprising -- National Post/Reuters
BAALBEK, Lebanon — Weapons dealer Abu Wael has traded guns in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley since the last days of his country’s civil war, nearly a quarter of a century ago.
This has been his busiest year ever.
Unrest in neighbouring Syria has sent demand for weapons soaring, doubling prices for Kalashnikov assault rifles and other weapons and helping supply the increasingly well armed insurrection challenging President Bashar al-Assad.
In the first six months of the protests, Abu Wael sold 2,000 Kalashnikovs and M16 rifles, the highest turnover of his long years in an underground arms business that has operated for decades across porous Middle East borders.
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My Comment: Considering how violent Syria has become .... if I was living there, I would be arming myself and my family with Kalashnikovs, pistols, and ammo.
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