UPDATE: Josh corrected by adding the fateful 'not'!
"... "Iran is resupplying Syria and through Syria has supplied weapons to Hezbollah," said Tom Countryman, the assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation, at a Wednesday morning breakfast meeting of the Defense Writers Group in Washington.
Countryman's bureau plays a major role in monitoring international compliance with nonproliferation and arms control rules. He declined to go into specifics on what arms Iran and Russia are giving the regime of Bashar al-Assad,...
"We do not believe that Russian shipments of weapons to Syria are in the interests of Russia or Syria," he said.
According to Countryman, the Iranian weapons being funneled through the Syrian government to Hezbollah are being used by Hezbollah inside Syria, but are being transferred to Hezbollah groups inside Lebanon. (THE OMISSION of 'not' by ROGIN IS NOT INNOCENT; This sentence makes sense ONLY when 'not' is added!)
Countryman also said the U.S. government is working with allies to try to get a handle on the stores of conventional, biological, and chemical weapons inside Syria, to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands if and when the Assad regime collapses.
There are "tens of thousands" of MANPADS - shoulder-fired missile systems -- in Syria and nobody really knows where they all are, Countryman said. ..."
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Didn't Libya also have thousands of MANPADS which NATO never recovered. (Why they never appear to have been used against against NAT attack helicopters always puzzled me)
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