{"id":1429,"date":"2017-04-20T07:07:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2017-04-20T07:07:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T07:07:11","slug":"gifts-from-uncle-sam-al-qaeda-wages-war-in-syria-with-us-weaponry-sputnik-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freemasonrywatch.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/20\/gifts-from-uncle-sam-al-qaeda-wages-war-in-syria-with-us-weaponry-sputnik-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts From Uncle Sam: Al-Qaeda Wages War in Syria With US Weaponry – Sputnik News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sputnik News
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09:11 23.11.2015<\/p>\n

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The Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, has released a grateful video, where they openly thank the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which the US has touted as a \u201cmoderate opposition group\u201d, for supplying them with US-made anti-tank TOW missiles (\u201cTube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided”).<\/p>\n

A recently released video shows an Al-Nusra Front field commander thanking the FSA commanders for giving his forces TOW missiles, according to a report released by the Iranian news agency FARS.<\/p>\n

The agency reminds readers that the two groups, the Al-Nusra and the FSA, formed an alliance in March, the Army of Conquest, or Jaish al-Fatah in Arabic, to fight against the forces of President Assad.<\/p>\n

Since then, they have fought together \u201cat almost every single battle in Aleppo, Lattakia, Hama, and Idlib Governorates of Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through this alliance several militant groups like the Al-Nusra Front and the Ahrar al-Sham movement have been given access to FSA’s US-made heavy weaponry, which has been supplied to the militant group by the US, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.<\/p>\n

According to the agency\u2019s estimates, Saudi Arabia sent 500 TOW missiles to Al-Nusra directly last month.<\/p>\n

The US, however, claims that it is just supplying aid and weapons to FSA or the so-called moderate militant groups in Syria.<\/p>\n

The BGM-71 TOW is one of the most widely-used guided anti-tank missiles. The weapon is used in anti-armor, anti-bunker, anti-fortification and anti-amphibious landing roles.<\/p>\n

TOW missiles are used by the armed forces of more than 40 countries and are integrated in over 15,000 ground, vehicle and helicopter platforms worldwide.<\/p>\n

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