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CIA busy arming Takfiris in Mideast, N Africa region: Analyst

Terrorists load ammunitions into a tank during clashes with Syrian forces near the village of Om al-Krameel, in Aleppo, on May 5, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Micheal Maloof, a commentator and former Pentagon official from Washington, about the issue of US-made weapons reaching the hands of Takfiri terrorist groups in Syria.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: There was reportedly only a couple of occasions we heard of US forces supposedly mistakenly airdropped weapons, which were fell into Daesh hands, yet this terror group has been seen with a significant cache of American weapons, what’s your assessment as to why?

Maloof: Well, I think it has to do with the number of the so-called moderate groups that the United States has been supplying weapons to primarily through the CIA who have merged with Daesh and they're the ones who ultimately had the weapons and now they've been captured. It goes to show you that the policy of differentiating so-called moderate jihadi, Salafis groups is silly because they don't exist. They either have sided with Daesh or Nusra or al-Qaeda if you will. So, they are all terrorist groups and they all need to be taken out.

Press TV: And we're shocked at this footage of some of this weaponries extremely sophisticated. Now we see multiple countries fighting this Takfiri group yet they never run out of weapons or militants regardless of the many setbacks they seem to suffer. Where do you think all the support comes from or do you think that the group is totally self-sufficient after the looting that they do from banks and oil or do you think that they have some serious backing that we need to get to the root of?

Maloof: Well, I think it's all the above but primarily they're getting the weapons from CIA through Jordan and Qatar. Saudi Arabia of course continues to fund these jihadi Salafis groups and it's going to continue on. And plus you have the help of Turkey that's aiding and abetting this because ultimately turkey wants to be the primary mover of Sunni Islam into northern Syria basically to take over Syria, the northern portion of Syria.

So, they're helping to facilitate the movement of these troops, the movement of this equipment. It's the only way that it goes into it, it is through Turkey. And this has been an ongoing CIA operation we've seen it happening since the time that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama decided to take down Libya. All those weapons just disappeared and they made their way into Syria and they’re going to so-called moderate groups, which ultimately decided to metastasize into these jihadi Salafist and then Daesh groups.


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