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London – Most weapons looted from Iraqi military stocks, according to Amnesty International report.<\/strong><\/p>\n The majority of weapons used by Daesh come from supplies plundered from the Iraqi military and mainly consist of stock designed or manufactured in former Soviet bloc states, according to Amnesty International.<\/p>\n Advances made across northern Iraq last year, particularly the capture of Mosul, gave Daesh access to a huge stockpile of arms that also included modern U.S.-made weaponry.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have been able to see what type of weapons they have got but in terms of quantity it\u2019s very difficult to know that,\u201d Patrick Wilcken, an arms control researcher at Amnesty, told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n \u201cHowever, what we can say is that the top one is definitely Russian and former Soviet Union weapons. So it\u2019s Russian and Eastern European and it\u2019s their standard equipment that they are using.\u201d<\/p>\n Wilcken said the U.S-made and NATO equipment in Daesh\u2019s hands was a result of arms transfers made to Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.<\/p>\n He added that the bulk of Daesh\u2019s arsenal was old and dated from the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n \u201cThe 1980s was a crucial era for arms buildup and that was the time of the Iran-Iraq War, when Russia was the principal supplier of Iraq,\u201d Wilcken said. \u201cBut I think it\u2019s important to remember that just because the weapons are old does not mean that they were necessarily transferred in the era they were manufactured.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd a lot of old Warsaw Pact stock has been transferred by the U.S., the U.K., other coalition members, during the occupation of Iraq and post-2003. And even more recently, supplies to Kurdish forces in post-, mid-2014 were mainly old Warsaw Pact stock.\u201d<\/p>\n Daesh also buys weapons from corrupt members of the Syrian military and on the \u201cillicit market that runs across the borders,\u201d Wilcken added.<\/p>\n \u201cThere does seem to be a lot of reports of illicit traffic. And it would be surprising if there wasn\u2019t illicit traffic given that the whole region is in conflict.\u201d\/AA\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" London – Most weapons looted from Iraqi military stocks, according to Amnesty International report. The majority of weapons used by Daesh come from supplies plundered from the Iraqi military and mainly consist of stock designed or manufactured in former Soviet bloc states, according to Amnesty International. Advances made across northern Iraq last year, particularly the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[233,235,234],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-daesh","tag-russia-supports-terrorism","tag-russian-weapons"],"views":593,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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