Iraqi weapons smugglers arm Syrian opposition

On Thursday, the US CBS TV channel announced that Iraqi smugglers were selling weapons to the Syrian opposition.

The demand for small arms – in particular, Kalashnikov guns, – is currently high in Syria.

The channel quoted a smuggler from the Iraqi city of Mosul called al-Lehaibi, who said: "It's about making a good, profitable business. It's also to help the Syrian people topple the tyrant who has been suppressing his nation for decades with severe brutality."

The CBS’s report also said that in the last few months, several Al-Qaeda militants from Mosul had penetrated Syrian territory. Some of them had been trained as suicide bombers.

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