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But we've also seen cases of Western (and other) weapons being out and out sold for profit on the arms market like the well-publicized case of the Glock pistols provided to Iraqi security forces.
This is a misleading piece. 1st, Anyone who tracks ISIS arms knows that the massive bulk of their small arms are USSR/Chinese origin. @conflictarm have execllent data on it 2nd. The Western arms that ISIS & other groups *do* have are usually captured from US allies, like Iraq.https://twitter.com/sarahleah1/status/1062837818593079296 …
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Completly correct, & that's a big issue, but I'd argue the SyAA is on another level compared to Iraqi forces nowadays. It's kinda a general arms control issue, not a Western one. Brilliant discussion to have, but the article comes from a misleading angle, if you see what I mean.
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As to the large numbers of western weapons in ISIS hands, look no further than the Iraqi police/army that the US dumped piles of western weapons on, only to have these stockpiles looted by ISIS during their occupation of northern Iraq.
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Yes, corruption is a big issue too but the main aspect imho is massive arms cache capture and the organisational ability of ISIS to immediately transport and keep safe those weapons, especially when the Assad regime for example just didn't bother bombing the caches immediately
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Exactly, especially in the early days, ISIS was very swift to overrun police stations, Army depots, etc. IMHO They we're looking to capture as much weaponry as they could as fast as they could, and they specifically targeted offensives at locations where arms were stored
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Even us that aren't experts know that but people like her continue with this rubbish
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It's blatant fodder to online Assad/Russia/PartisanThot fanbois
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Ain't that the the truth
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Technically Saudi supplies to SDF (arab tribes) are also captured by ISIS, minuscule in greater scheme of things but still
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