This is interesting:
The Interior Ministry said thieves broke into a warehouse and stole a huge amount of firearms and ammunition. The ministry said 20,000 U.S.-origin M-16 assault rifles and 15,000 rounds for 9mm pistols were stolen.
I'm just joking. This isn't a Middle East version of Fast and Furious.
As an Instapundit reader noted to the professor:
They likely weren’t stolen, they were backdoor transferred to a local ally in exchange for transferring Soviet made guns to Libya or Syria rebels.
That sounds about right. Given the potential for al Qaeda or Iranian-supported terrorists to cause problems with that kind of arsenal, I'd be shocked if security was that lax for 20K rifles. It's not impossible, of course. But I would be shocked.
And we do want non-jihadis in Syria to get arms. The non-jihadis have a tough road ahead--toppling Assad and then defeating their allies of convenience in al Qaeda who are also trying to topple Assad.
