Ruth Pollard, Beirut
February 18, 2012
SYRIA has become a magnet for foreign fighters, with al-Qaeda aligned jihadists streaming across the border from Iraq and rebel soldiers from the Libyan city of Misrata crossing in from Turkey, experts say.
With the jihadists come weapons, and there is also a growing movement of AK-47s, hand grenades, heavy machine guns, mortars and armour-piercing missiles into Syria, warned Hilal Khashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut.
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SYRIA has become a magnet for foreign fighters, with al-Qaeda aligned jihadists streaming across the border from Iraq and rebel soldiers from the Libyan city of Misrata crossing in from Turkey, experts say.
With the jihadists come weapons, and there is also a growing movement of AK-47s, hand grenades, heavy machine guns, mortars and armour-piercing missiles into Syria, warned Hilal Khashan, professor of political science at the American University of Beirut.
Read more...
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