DAMASCUS – It’s been three days since Russia prevented a terrorist attackon its bases in Syria, with terrorists, as unexpected as it may seem, usingsophisticated drones to strike the facilities, Sputnik has reported.
While the Russian Defense Ministry has stated that such technology could besupplied only by an advanced state, the Pentagon quelled the crowds, sayingthat those devices “could easily be obtained in the open market.”
The international coalition fighting against Daesh (ISIS) and otherterrorist groups in the Middle East has been helping the so-called moderateopposition to fight those radical groups, supplying them with necessaryammunition. However, as per usual, “we wanted the best, you know the rest.”Thanks to a disastrous gust of wind, the coalition’s airdrops of highlysophisticated arms were blown straight into the hands of terrorists, and arecent incident made Sputnik recap the most resonant cases.
Syrian MoD Report
In October 2017, the Syrian Defense Ministry released a report with footageof ammunition confiscated from numerous terrorist organizations, includingDaesh and al-Nusra Front, now named Tahrir al-Sham, claiming that thoseweapons had been manufactured in the United States or by its close allies.The report outlined that those groups were supplied with “rockets, rifles,machine guns, anti-air weapons and even tanks” allegedly in exchangefor oil from the territories. By a cruel twist of fate, those weaponshappened to be a part of the routine “arms delivery” to the “moderateopposition”. Probably, it was the wind which blew the supplies off course,offering a “gift of fate” to the terrorists, who were “polite” enoughto accept it.
Anti-Aircraft Missiles
In August 2017, the Lebanese army, which has been engaged in rooting Daeshout from a northeastern region of Lebanon bordering Syria, discoveredanti-aircraft missiles, among other weapons, in an abandoned area.Moreover, the Lebanese, who have apparently done a great job, uncoveredsurface-to-air missiles left by al-Nusra Front militants in an areacaptured by Hezbollah and then taken over by the army. As early as 2013,The New York Times reported that Qatar was sending MANPADS (“man-portableair-defense-system”) to Syria and said that these might potentially gostraight to Al-Qaeda to shoot down civilian aircraft.