Arming terrorism

Commentary Magazine quotes Reuters when Reuters did an article on Monday about Boko Haram;

The Bama attack showed their substantial firepower, including machine guns, large numbers of rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) and pick-up trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns, a sign the weapons flood from the Libyan war that helped rebels seize parts of Mali last year has reached Nigeria, officials say.

“They’re getting bolder, better armed, more organized. it’s looking bleak,” a security official in Maiduguri said.

So, now we’re sending “advisors” to Nigeria to help the country deal with the Islamist al Qaeda-linked group and those “advisors” will be facing some of the same weapons we sent to help overthrow Gaddafi in Libya because we didn’t supervise how those weapons were being distributed.

McClatchy reports that Syrian rebels have released video of the rebels using US TOW missiles against Syrian government tanks;

The trial program was revealed early last month when videos posted by the Hazem Movement, a rebel group with ties to the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army, showed a small number of TOW anti-tank missiles being fired at Syrian government targets. Experts who examined the videos concluded that the missiles likely had been supplied by Saudi Arabia after the United States approved transfer of the advanced weapons.

New video released over the weekend suggests the program has since been expanded to at least five rebel groups, most with ties to the FSA but some that are loyal to the Syrian Revolutionary Front, another secular rebel coalition. The videos purport to show combat operations in both Syria’s north near the border with Turkey and in its south, along the border with Jordan.

So how long before our troops are facing al Qaeda jihadists who armed armed with TOW missiles that spilled over from the Syrian conflict? We are already planning to send advisers to Iraq to help that government fight against the insurgency there, you know the group that calls themselves ISIS the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Category: Terror War