Jamie Dettmer
foxnews.com
July 12, 2013
Syrian rebels have a new source of weapons and cash from inside Kuwait, and
their benefactors in the oil-rich state are sending the aid to the most militant
and anti-West factions involved in the fight to topple Bashar al-Assad.
The role of Saudi and Qatari governments and individuals in the funding and
arming of Islamist fighters in Syria has been well known since the civil war
began more than two years ago. But now, guns and money are flowing from private
sources and Salafist-controlled NGOs based in Kuwait, and they are going to
rebel factions aligned with Al Qaeda.
“We are collecting money to buy all these weapons, so that our brothers will
be victorious,” hard-core Sunni Islamist Sheikh Shafi’ Al-Ajami announced on
Kuwaiti television last month, listing the black-market prices of weapons,
including heat-seeking missiles, anti-aircraft guns and rocket-propelled
grenades.
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