CIA weapons for Syrian rebels sold to arms black market

(Reuters) - Weapons shipped into Jordan for Syrian rebels by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia were stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, the New York Times reported, citing American and Jordanian officials.

Some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November that killed two Americans and three others at a police training facility in Amman, according to a joint investigation by the New York Times and Al Jazeera. (http://nyti.ms/292MmdH)

A Jordanian officer shot dead two U.S. government security contractors, a South African trainer and two Jordanians at a U.S.-funded police training facility near Amman before being killed in a shootout, Jordanian authorities had said in November.

The training facility was set up on the outskirts of the capital, Amman, after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq to help rebuild the shattered country's postwar security forces and to train Palestinian Authority police officers.

The weapons used in the shooting had originally arrived in Jordan for the Syrian rebel training program, the paper reported, citing American and Jordanian officials.

Theft of the weapons, which ended months ago after complaints by the American and Saudi governments, has led to a flood of new weapons available on the arms black market, the New York Times said.

Jordanian officers who were part of the plan "reaped a windfall" from sale of weapons, using the money to buy iPhones, SUVs and other luxury items, according to the paper, which cited Jordanian officials.

The CIA could not be immediately reached for comment.

http://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-weapons-syrian-rebels-sold-arms-black-market-010448516.html

Sometimes you have to wonder exactly whose side our CIA and FBI are on.....

Mexican cartels, ISIS, the Libyan rebel forces. Seems we are always fighting our own weapons!

just sayin

I'm not even surprised at this. A lot of weapons get diverted to the black market anyway.
As for the CIA and FBI, they aint your friends. They pretend to be all good & mighty but they deep into underground shiit

Who cares?! Ann Romney had a horse!

Signed,
The Left.

HoodahThunkit?

Hey if it wasn't for the black market, how would the cia/NSA buy guns osp?
On site procurement.

hmmm America might consider getting out of the international weapons distribution business, you're terrible at it!!!

Well, you can freak out about this, or you can pay attention to the history of this kind of thing.

It's ALWAYS been this way. Whenever we try to get someone else to do the fighting for us, this happens. Every time. Blaming the CIA for what the people who they CORRECTLY gave the weapons to, makes no sense.

A lot of the stuff that's been used against our people in the ME, was what the local anti-Americans scrounged from our own dumps, or stole from us.

And Canada is combating terrorism how??? Exactly.

Fast And Furious on Steroids?