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The arrest in Kuwait of a Lebanese man with ties to the Islamic State has raised the specter that Ukraine's notorious illicit arms market may be a source of weapons for the the militant group.
One senior Ukrainian official with access to intelligence agency reports told Mashable on Friday that it is "plausible" the man, arrested by Kuwaiti authorities on Thursday, had obtained FN-6 surface-to-air missile systems he admitted to getting from a broker in Ukraine. Calling news of the arrest "interesting," the official stopped short of giving a definitive answer to a question about whether Kiev had direct information about the arms sale in question.
ISIS has carried out deadly attacks with a variety of weapons in Egypt, Lebanon and France in the past three weeks, raising questions about how the assailants were able to acquire arms that are banned throughout much of Europe.
WNU Editor: Almost everyone in Ukraine has a weapon(s) in their home .... and that is because the black market for arms in Ukraine is massive. I know that all of my relatives are armed to the teeth .... and they live in the peaceful parts of the country. That is why speculation that someone and/or group in Ukraine may be selling arms to shady and questionable buyers in the Middle East does not surprise me. Corruption and greed now exists in abundance in Ukraine .... and if it means selling anti-aircraft missiles on the black market to make some money .... it will be done. But this news is nothing new .... Russia has been raising its concerns about this black market since the beginning of the year .... Russia Concerned About Arms Smuggling…From Ukraine (Center for Security Policy) .... but no one is listening. But while the focus is on a Ukrainian connection to arms sales to ISIS, the sad fact is that most of the weapons that the Islamic State has in its possession are American, and these weapons came from the weapons that Iraqi the soldiers dropped when they fled from ISIS forces or from the arms depots that they left behind.
More News On Reports That Ukraine's Black market May Be A Source Of Weapons To the Islamic State
ISIS bought anti-aircraft missiles in Ukraine via Kuwait cell -- RT
ISIL Militant Admits to Buying Arms in Ukraine, Sending to Syria Via Turkey -- Sputnik
Ukraine Weapons To ISIS? Kiev Denies Charge After Islamic State Terrorists Caught In Kuwait -- IBTimes
Kuwait disrupts extremist cell supporting the Islamic State -- AP
Ukrainian Defense Ministry has no information on terrorists’ weapons purchases in Ukraine -- TASS
3 comments:
My favorite episode:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Faina
Sort of a misleading headline, isn't it? It's not like Poroshenko is supplying them.
You might want to google Ukrainian Arms smuggling.
At the same time that the Ukranian Army was slapping " hillbilly armour" on trucks, the Government run KTF was illegally selling T-72 BM's and BMP-3's to the Congo Wars.
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