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Saudis does it give support al-Qaeda in Syria ?  Twitter images place the close. Thus, the radicals are struggling with bazookas and grenade throwing from a Saudi Arabian delivery in neighboring Iraq.

Military equipment from a Saudi Arabian delivery to Syria rebels apparently arrived in Iraq’s radical Islamists. They are allegedly used against the Iraqi central government. This tells the blogger Eliot Higgins, who was known by his meticulous analysis of YouTube videos from Syria. He had in 2013 uncovered the Saudi Arabian arms shipment to Syria rebels in cooperation with the “New York Times”.

Now he has numerous Twitter Photos analyzes – and it identified the suspect weapons. Used the military equipment among other things by the al-Qaeda support militia “Islamic State in Syria and Iraq” (Isis). She is considered one of the most brutal groups of the region, but also as one of the most solvent. In the pictures, among other things, an alleged Isis fighters is to see the fires with the weapons to vehicles of the Iraqi army.

Whether Syrian rebels have resold the weapons or the radicals captured this is unclear. Between Syrian rebel groups and the Isis-fighters, it always comes back to combat.

Several times weapons were discovered from the Saudi Arabian delivery for radical Islamist groups in Syria. That these are but now used by the extreme Isis militia and against the Iraqi government that is allied with the United States, was not previously known.

Civil War in Syria:West thinks again about arms shipments to rebels

The weapons are mortars and bazookas. Originally they come from Croatia. They were bought by the Saudis and delivered with the help of the U.S. and other Western governments in early 2013 to moderate Syrian rebel groups. The Syrian army is mainly used weapons from Soviet and Russian tradition, which is why the trace of weapons of Croatian or Yugoslavian part design can be traced well.

The West has been reluctant to arms shipments to Syria rebels. Because the risk is regarded as very high that they could fall into the wrong hands . So far , therefore, little weapons were supplied with Western support . And if so, then mainly lightweight device such as Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades , while the rebels demand especially portable air defense missiles.

After the failure of the Syrian peace negotiations in Geneva is but thinking about it again , to support the remaining moderate rebel groups in Syria but even stronger. Their influence has diminished rapidly over the past year , especially compared with more radical groups.

Isis is currently trying to set up a theocracy in the border region between Iraq and Syria. On the Syrian side Isis has recently suffered heavy defeats against Syrian rebels and had to – at least for now – to withdraw from some Syrian towns and cities again . In the West, Isis is also therefore a matter of great concern because in the ranks of the militia many foreigners , also German , fight .

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