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Interior announces the transfer of "jihadists" and weapons from Iraq to Syria
Sunday, February 12, 2012 01:17
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Interior confirmed Saturday that "jihadists" Iraqis have gone from Iraq to Syria, adding that the weapons smuggled them across the border.
A senior agent of the Ministry of the Interior Adnan al-Asadi told the French press on Saturday, "We have intelligence reports that a number of Iraqi jihadists went to Syria," pointing out that "the ongoing process of smuggling weapons from Iraq to Syria."
Asadi said that "the weapons smuggled from Baghdad to Nineveh" in the north, he said, adding that "the arms in Mosul increased its price because it sends to the other side, Kalashnikov, and prices rose from between 100 and $ 200 to between 1000 and 1500 dollars."
He continued that "the weapons smuggled from Mosul through the Rabia border crossing to Syria because the families in this region are mixed between the two sides, there are also some smuggling from crossing near Abu Kamal, is regarded as a province of Anbar, smuggling more difficult, because the distance too far."
The two neighboring countries have a common border with a length of about 600 km.
Asadi pointed out that "in the past, the Syrians are come to fight in Iraq, but they are fighting now in Syria, as the Egyptians are fighting in Egypt and in Yemen, Yemeni, and Libyans in Libya."
It is said that the Syrian regime was facing in the previous charges of providing financial support and military and logistical support to groups "jihadist" insurgent in Iraq, while accusing the Syrian authorities today, "gangs of armed terrorist" groups and Salafi committing acts of violence, including suicide attacks and car bombings targeted the headquarters of security in Damascus and Aleppo, which killed dozens, and announced at the beginning of the protest movement they seized weapons smuggled from Iraq, while Syrian security source said in November that about 400 Iraqi jihad arrived in Syria, coming from the Iraqi border.
The leadership of the federal police in Nineveh province, revealed in early December 2011 on the flow of explosives developed and manufactured locally in Iraq to Syria by armed groups, said the commander of the third year of the federal police in Nineveh, Maj. Gen. Mahdi Gharrawi "Alsumaria News", "arms smuggling became inversely from Iraq to Syria or elsewhere, was charged with the Islamic Supreme Council in the (17 October 2011), Saudi Arabia to support the arrival of hard-liners to power in Syria, warning of the outbreak of future war between Iraq and described the newcomers in the neighboring country to him.
The Syria is witnessing since the middle of last March, a protest movement and the large-scale against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad calls drop it confronted the security forces violently, resulting to date from the fall of more than six thousand people, according to human rights organizations note that the number does not include missing or not evidenced by their places, while the statistics indicate the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights to the arrest of more than 70 thousand Syrians during this period, and the arrest of more than 15 thousand detainees, as well as thousands of Almtuaren who are not yet known whether they Mtuaren or detainees, accusing the system Syrian "terrorist groups" armed violence in the country.
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Sunday, February 12, 2012 01:17
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Interior confirmed Saturday that "jihadists" Iraqis have gone from Iraq to Syria, adding that the weapons smuggled them across the border.
A senior agent of the Ministry of the Interior Adnan al-Asadi told the French press on Saturday, "We have intelligence reports that a number of Iraqi jihadists went to Syria," pointing out that "the ongoing process of smuggling weapons from Iraq to Syria."
Asadi said that "the weapons smuggled from Baghdad to Nineveh" in the north, he said, adding that "the arms in Mosul increased its price because it sends to the other side, Kalashnikov, and prices rose from between 100 and $ 200 to between 1000 and 1500 dollars."
He continued that "the weapons smuggled from Mosul through the Rabia border crossing to Syria because the families in this region are mixed between the two sides, there are also some smuggling from crossing near Abu Kamal, is regarded as a province of Anbar, smuggling more difficult, because the distance too far."
The two neighboring countries have a common border with a length of about 600 km.
Asadi pointed out that "in the past, the Syrians are come to fight in Iraq, but they are fighting now in Syria, as the Egyptians are fighting in Egypt and in Yemen, Yemeni, and Libyans in Libya."
It is said that the Syrian regime was facing in the previous charges of providing financial support and military and logistical support to groups "jihadist" insurgent in Iraq, while accusing the Syrian authorities today, "gangs of armed terrorist" groups and Salafi committing acts of violence, including suicide attacks and car bombings targeted the headquarters of security in Damascus and Aleppo, which killed dozens, and announced at the beginning of the protest movement they seized weapons smuggled from Iraq, while Syrian security source said in November that about 400 Iraqi jihad arrived in Syria, coming from the Iraqi border.
The leadership of the federal police in Nineveh province, revealed in early December 2011 on the flow of explosives developed and manufactured locally in Iraq to Syria by armed groups, said the commander of the third year of the federal police in Nineveh, Maj. Gen. Mahdi Gharrawi "Alsumaria News", "arms smuggling became inversely from Iraq to Syria or elsewhere, was charged with the Islamic Supreme Council in the (17 October 2011), Saudi Arabia to support the arrival of hard-liners to power in Syria, warning of the outbreak of future war between Iraq and described the newcomers in the neighboring country to him.
The Syria is witnessing since the middle of last March, a protest movement and the large-scale against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad calls drop it confronted the security forces violently, resulting to date from the fall of more than six thousand people, according to human rights organizations note that the number does not include missing or not evidenced by their places, while the statistics indicate the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights to the arrest of more than 70 thousand Syrians during this period, and the arrest of more than 15 thousand detainees, as well as thousands of Almtuaren who are not yet known whether they Mtuaren or detainees, accusing the system Syrian "terrorist groups" armed violence in the country.
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