Weapons shipped to Jordan by the CIA and Saudi Arabia for use by Syrian rebels ended up on the black market, highlighting the dangers of the U.S. government’s decades-old program to arm and train foreign fighters, a new investigation published Monday by the New York Times and Al Jazeera reveals.
According to U.S. and Jordanian officials, millions of dollars worth of weapons including Kalashnikov rifles, mortars, and rocket grenades were systematically stolen by Jordanian intelligence officers in a massive scheme and sold to underground merchants. Some of those weapons were used in the November attack on a police training academy in Amman that killed five people, including two Americans, and injured seven others.
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