{"id":34543,"date":"2013-04-11T14:54:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T14:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=34543"},"modified":"2013-04-13T03:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T03:40:00","slug":"20000-u-s-m-16s-stolen-from-unguarded-warehouse-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=34543","title":{"rendered":"20,000 U.S. M-16s Stolen from Unguarded Warehouse in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>And Now: America\u2019s Uncleared War: Nearly 20,000 Foreign Mercenaries Fight In Syria<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to alvinroasting for sending this in.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/americas-uncleared-war-nearly-20000-foreign-mercenaries-fight-in-syria\/5330977\">Global Research<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The civil war in Syria has opened opportunities for foreign mercenaries and about 20,000, financed by Afghan drug trafficking, have been fighting in that Middle East country, according to Russia\u2019s Federal Drug Control Service Director Viktor Ivanov.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransnational organized crime groups can ensure an inflow of a huge number of criminals and mercenaries from certain countries to any part of the world with proceeds from heroin sales,\u201d Ivanov was quoted by the Ria Novosti news agency as saying on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He said 15,000 to 20,000 mercenaries were concentrated in Syria \u201cdestabilizing the situation in that country,\u201d he said without giving any evidence to support his claims. It was transnational criminal groups and not Taliban who pose the greatest threat in Afghanistan, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said earlier this month that Syria was turning into a \u201ccenter of attraction\u201d for international terrorists in the ongoing civil war between rebels and government forces.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8212;End Update&#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=34214\">Syria<\/a> op?<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/2013\/04\/09\/20000-u-s-m-16s-stolen-from-unguarded-warehouse-in-kuwait\/\">World Tribune<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Kuwait has reported the theft of a massive amount of U.S. weapons. The Interior Ministry said thieves broke into a warehouse and stole a huge amount of firearms and ammunition. The ministry said 20,000 U.S.-origin M-16 assault rifles and 15,000 rounds for 9mm pistols were stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no guards during the break-in,\u201d the ministry said on April 7.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Now: America\u2019s Uncleared War: Nearly 20,000 Foreign Mercenaries Fight In Syria Thanks to alvinroasting for sending this in. Via: Global Research: The civil war in Syria has opened opportunities for foreign mercenaries and about 20,000, financed by Afghan drug trafficking, have been fighting in that Middle East country, according to Russia\u2019s Federal Drug Control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coincidence","category-covert-operations","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}