Thursday, April 9, 2015

Syria And Iraq Are Awash With Weapons

ISIS Militants. Twitter

Business Insider: Syria and Iraq are awash with Russian, Iranian, and Chinese weapons

As ISIS first blitzed across northern Iraq in June 2014, the militants seized large quantities of US arms and vehicles from the fleeing Iraqi forces.

Over the almost past year of fighting, however, ISIS has gone from fielding large quantities of US weapons to using a mixture of Iranian, Chinese, Russian, Soviet, and Sudanese ammunition.

According to a fact sheet from the Forum on Arms Trade, citing the Conflict Armament Research (CAR) and the Small Arms Survey, ISIS was largely able to acquire this ammunition from the constantly shifting battle lines of the Syrian civil war.

WNU Editor: For arms merchants .... this must be heaven.

3 comments:

CatholicDragoon said...

In case anyone's interested.
http://utopiathecollapse.com/2015/04/08/new-age-of-water-wars-portends-bleak-future-for-the-middle-east/

Unknown said...

All the potable water you want, if you have desalinization plants powered by fusion reactors. They are getting closer. The closer to the equator people could use solar plants to operate desalination plants on at least a small scale.


Like they say drought is natural, famine is man made.

If there is a water shortage, it is due to conflict.

CatholicDragoon said...

Then what is it that they are all doing there?