A new Amnesty International (AI) report reveals that the Middle-East-based terrorist organisation, Islamic State in Iraq and Levant, better known as ISIS or IS, has built a substantial arsenal, including US-made weapons, obtained from the Iraqi army and Syrian opposition groups.
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A FLOOD of weapons into Iraq over the past 40 years has allowed the Islamic State (Isis) terror group to arm itself to the teeth, Amnesty International said yesterday.
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“Experts have also observed: Austrian Steyr and Russian Dragunov SVD sniper rifles; Russian, Chinese, Iraqi and Belgian machine guns; former Soviet Union/Yugoslav anti-tank missiles; and Russian, Chinese, Iranian and American artillery systems”.
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Image: A member of the Iraqi security forces stands between Islamic State ammunition being displayed in al-Alam Salahuddin province.
“In Syria, coalition military forces conducted 11 strikes using attack, fighter, and remotely piloted aircraft”, the statement said.
According to the report, ISIS fighters acquired the huge amounts of internationally manufactured weapons when the Sunni-militant group took control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, in June 2014. Amnesty International is also asking all states which have not yet signed or ratified the Arms Trade Treaty to do so now. It was also commissioned before Obama declared the Islamic State contained in Iraq and Syria – just a day before the Paris attacks – but it was delivered to the White House in the weeks afterward.
It has called for an embargo to stop the spread of arms in the region.
Amnesty International’s 44-page report, released late Monday, found that much of IS’ equipment and munitions comes from stockpiles captured from the US-allied Iraqi military and Syrian rebels.
“In the 1970s and 1980s at least 34 countries, led by Russia, France and China, irresponsibly transferred billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment to Iraq”, the reports says. “Likewise, lax controls over military stockpiles and endemic corruption by successive Iraqi governments have added to the problem”, the watchdog’s report claimed.
“Hundreds of thousands of those weapons went missing and are still unaccounted for”. Daesh’s operations in Iraq and Syria have unfolded from the backdrop of a permissive security environment where a large number of vehicles and arms have flowed for decades.
All states that have not yet done so should accede to or ratify the global Arms Trade Treaty immediately.
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About two-thirds say they disapprove of his handling of ISIS (64%), about the same as in August and May.
