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While the opposition Syrian National Coalition, headed by Ahmad Jarba, has been meeting with US officials this week in Washington in an effort to secure further support, including more funding and additional antitank and antiaircraft weapons, news from Syria indicates that some advanced US-made weapons are already being used in various Syrian provinces by rebel fighters. Over the past few weeks, media reports have stressed that US officials have begun a "pilot program" of providing small quantities of advanced weapons, including TOW missiles, to vetted "moderate" groups, and specifically the Harakat Hazm, which fights in a newly formed coalition called...

HELSINKI (AP) — A British-registered ship that was held in a Finnish port after authorities discovered 69 surface-to-air missiles and 160 tons of explosives onboard has permission to travel again, but without those materials or its captain, a port official said Monday. The M/S Thor Liberty was headed to China and had docked in the southern Finnish port of Kotka to pick up anchor chains when police last week discovered and seized the missiles and explosive piric acid on board. The Patriot missiles were an official shipment from Germany to South Korea, while Finnish authorities said the explosives were a...

Anyone see this? A friend forwarded it to me. Good grief. No where to be found. Heck, let's just send the Chinese our drone instead of all the suspense. Hillary? Obama? MSM? Where the **ll are these people/commies????

A German defense ministry spokesman on Thursday confirmed that a shipment of missiles discovered in Finland were sent from Germany and were enroute to South Korea. "These missiles are from German military stockpiles and were sold entirely legally with all requisite legal and customs documentation," the spokesman said. The Patriot missiles were bound for South Korea, and the sale was part of a previous standing agreement, he added. Earlier Thursday, Finland's National Bureau of Investigation said they had detained two people suspected of illegal transit shipping of weaponry after customs officials found what they described as 69 Patriot surface-to-air missiles...

Germans Using Danes to Ship US Missiles to China On British Vessel Crewed By Ukrainians Caught By FinnsIt's quite unusual.A cargo ship called the MS Thor Liberty, owned by a shipping company based in Denmark, was docked at the Finnish port of Kotka when alert dock workers noticed some funny-looking containers marked “fireworks.”  This naturally made the hackles rise on the Finns, because the Thor Liberty was bound for China, and everybody knows the Chinese invented fireworks.  Why would they be importing them?Finnish authorities opened up those fireworks crates, and found them to contain 69 American-made Patriot anti-missile missiles, which...