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What sparked the arms market in Iraq since last August? Gun "Kalashnikov" sold for $ 2,000, when he arrived at the price of the "PKC" to $ 3000.
Although the Iraqi security sources reported "life" that the movement of arms sales fell in southern and central since the end of September, against the backdrop of fatwas prohibition of Shiite clerics, but the task of "bear arms, however, the state", and the symbol of its propaganda accompanying "hand in hand .. No weapon hand ", became questionable, four years after the campaign" Charge of the Knights ", which won the 2008 amounts of gear and weapons, does not have one in Iraq certainly" land clean "tools of murder.
Where it went up arms in stages still a mystery when the authorities, and in general, the Shi'ite fatwas prohibition came to the concerns of the hypothesis that the weapon found its way to the Syrian opposition. But security sources said - in the second hypothesis - that Iraqi militant groups have a foothold north of the capital Baghdad, is that I got a weapon the south, although it like Bkhaddaah between Iraqi factions for the transfer of weapons from a component to another component. And later shown armed attacks and acts of violence in September occurred in Kirkuk and Mosul, Diyala and Baghdad, that the second hypothesis is closer to reality. But where were the weapons? And how it has been moved?
In Nasiriyah was tightly controlled by the Iraqi police at the entrances to the city, since the sale of arms intensified early August. Says a source close to the atmosphere of those transactions, "brokers who bring guns from the tribes in the outskirts of the city, and are preparing quantities for unidentified customers."
And won tribes Iraqi large quantities of light and heavy weapons from the depots military left the Iraqi army during the U.S. invasion of the country, and has become more difficult for the authorities later withdraw weapons from individuals, and aggravated it on Bremer disbanded the U.S. for Iraq army, who acted of its members, including holding him materiel , and found his way to a variety of parties and groups.
The means through which the transfer of arms, source says that "loads passed through military checkpoints passing buses to transport passengers." But no confirmed information about who reached weapons.
And imposing pieces of the army and federal police intensive security measures on the roads linking the provinces, it is apparent that action seems difficult to ensure the passage of weapons through checkpoints. "They told us that it is very serious (...) arms migrate towards the north," This is what a police officer's "life", and believes that early August was a very volatile month, and military commanders in the field do not hide it from selling weapons News and buy it. There is no denying that "religious edicts softened from the heat of the arms market."
With the Iraqi authorities not reassuring to the efficacy of security plans, Voovdt since the tenth of August last officials to tribal councils, in an attempt to cut off funding to the market from the first source.
The delegates tried to persuade the elders of those tribes and the men that the weapon that is sold at exorbitant prices might be a reason for the formation of an Iraqi army-style free army in Syria.
The Sadrist movement and other Shiite forces adopt this idea, expected in August to be buying arms from the citizens of central and southern Iraq, the first step to form an army of Islamists in Iraq.
Shiite political forces in the country believes that the border with Syria and wide and not able to control them, and that people in adjacent areas wishing to provide assistance to the rebels there, so they make storing their arms. But other indicators do not serve this assumption, in the twentieth of August, security sources said in Diyala province, bordering Iran, security services recorded a big increase in the rates of buying weapons. It seems that armed groups in these areas lost much of its equipment, official data says that raids and searches resulted in the seizure of large piles of it, this might be a reason to buy more of it from the citizens of the South, to compensate for the losses.
Apart from the point of the weapon, whether Syria or inside Iraq, the flare up its market in a fast and sudden, reveals once again the spread of arms outside the state.
The Iraqi government has allowed in May to its citizens, in a controversial decision, "an individual owning a weapon, one for each house," and required "recorded at police stations."
Iraq has a law regulating the acquisition of weapons issued in 1992, and a ban on military-style weapons, trafficking or even repair without a license, and vowed the offender to imprisonment for a term not less than seven years or a fine.
During the civil war in the country (2005 - 2006), authorities encouraged citizens to surrender weapons, and happened to dozens volunteered to do so for financial rewards, but they backed off because they felt that the cycle of violence in the country is not yet complete.
Arms sales decreased to some extent in the south, against the backdrop of fears Shi'ite to be without a weapon, and that gives him for money to Sunni groups, says a political source of Najaf, as well as when residents Sunni areas, they hide their weapons in caches traditional away From the eyes of the government. Says an officer in the Iraqi army weapons seizures occurred routinely.
Although the phenomenon of gun ownership when the Iraqis are not new, but today it is gaining political and ethnic characteristics indicate a loss of trust between components, and here the life insurance arms, and an effective tool to ensure the survival of the strongest.
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What sparked the arms market in Iraq since last August? Gun "Kalashnikov" sold for $ 2,000, when he arrived at the price of the "PKC" to $ 3000.
Although the Iraqi security sources reported "life" that the movement of arms sales fell in southern and central since the end of September, against the backdrop of fatwas prohibition of Shiite clerics, but the task of "bear arms, however, the state", and the symbol of its propaganda accompanying "hand in hand .. No weapon hand ", became questionable, four years after the campaign" Charge of the Knights ", which won the 2008 amounts of gear and weapons, does not have one in Iraq certainly" land clean "tools of murder.
Where it went up arms in stages still a mystery when the authorities, and in general, the Shi'ite fatwas prohibition came to the concerns of the hypothesis that the weapon found its way to the Syrian opposition. But security sources said - in the second hypothesis - that Iraqi militant groups have a foothold north of the capital Baghdad, is that I got a weapon the south, although it like Bkhaddaah between Iraqi factions for the transfer of weapons from a component to another component. And later shown armed attacks and acts of violence in September occurred in Kirkuk and Mosul, Diyala and Baghdad, that the second hypothesis is closer to reality. But where were the weapons? And how it has been moved?
In Nasiriyah was tightly controlled by the Iraqi police at the entrances to the city, since the sale of arms intensified early August. Says a source close to the atmosphere of those transactions, "brokers who bring guns from the tribes in the outskirts of the city, and are preparing quantities for unidentified customers."
And won tribes Iraqi large quantities of light and heavy weapons from the depots military left the Iraqi army during the U.S. invasion of the country, and has become more difficult for the authorities later withdraw weapons from individuals, and aggravated it on Bremer disbanded the U.S. for Iraq army, who acted of its members, including holding him materiel , and found his way to a variety of parties and groups.
The means through which the transfer of arms, source says that "loads passed through military checkpoints passing buses to transport passengers." But no confirmed information about who reached weapons.
And imposing pieces of the army and federal police intensive security measures on the roads linking the provinces, it is apparent that action seems difficult to ensure the passage of weapons through checkpoints. "They told us that it is very serious (...) arms migrate towards the north," This is what a police officer's "life", and believes that early August was a very volatile month, and military commanders in the field do not hide it from selling weapons News and buy it. There is no denying that "religious edicts softened from the heat of the arms market."
With the Iraqi authorities not reassuring to the efficacy of security plans, Voovdt since the tenth of August last officials to tribal councils, in an attempt to cut off funding to the market from the first source.
The delegates tried to persuade the elders of those tribes and the men that the weapon that is sold at exorbitant prices might be a reason for the formation of an Iraqi army-style free army in Syria.
The Sadrist movement and other Shiite forces adopt this idea, expected in August to be buying arms from the citizens of central and southern Iraq, the first step to form an army of Islamists in Iraq.
Shiite political forces in the country believes that the border with Syria and wide and not able to control them, and that people in adjacent areas wishing to provide assistance to the rebels there, so they make storing their arms. But other indicators do not serve this assumption, in the twentieth of August, security sources said in Diyala province, bordering Iran, security services recorded a big increase in the rates of buying weapons. It seems that armed groups in these areas lost much of its equipment, official data says that raids and searches resulted in the seizure of large piles of it, this might be a reason to buy more of it from the citizens of the South, to compensate for the losses.
Apart from the point of the weapon, whether Syria or inside Iraq, the flare up its market in a fast and sudden, reveals once again the spread of arms outside the state.
The Iraqi government has allowed in May to its citizens, in a controversial decision, "an individual owning a weapon, one for each house," and required "recorded at police stations."
Iraq has a law regulating the acquisition of weapons issued in 1992, and a ban on military-style weapons, trafficking or even repair without a license, and vowed the offender to imprisonment for a term not less than seven years or a fine.
During the civil war in the country (2005 - 2006), authorities encouraged citizens to surrender weapons, and happened to dozens volunteered to do so for financial rewards, but they backed off because they felt that the cycle of violence in the country is not yet complete.
Arms sales decreased to some extent in the south, against the backdrop of fears Shi'ite to be without a weapon, and that gives him for money to Sunni groups, says a political source of Najaf, as well as when residents Sunni areas, they hide their weapons in caches traditional away From the eyes of the government. Says an officer in the Iraqi army weapons seizures occurred routinely.
Although the phenomenon of gun ownership when the Iraqis are not new, but today it is gaining political and ethnic characteristics indicate a loss of trust between components, and here the life insurance arms, and an effective tool to ensure the survival of the strongest.
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