Analyst's note: Absolutely must read. Egypt, Syria, or elsewhere in the Middle East with the "Arab Spring" as Hillary would say, "What difference does it make?" America is helping to foot the bills. American taxpayers continue to fund Muslim Brotherhood operatives, this time in Syria. This is the same Muslim Brotherhood now operating as a "5th Column Inside America" ... with the Feds being Complicit and the same Muslim Brotherhood Who Recently Torched a Christian Orphanage in Egypt. We have aleady reported that Mr. Obama Ignores Congress – Sends $500 million Of U.S. Taxpayer Money To Hamas. In the mean time another day of rage continues in Egypt. Nothing like a "gun running" operation being funded by the U.S. taxpayers.
Assuming the C-5 Galaxy (one of the largest aircraft in the world) would be the selected mode of delivery ... in this case to Syria ... two trips would be necessary. This article now points out:
[....] This isn’t the first time that the federal government has made massive bulk purchases of guns, gun parts, and ammunition which are extremely popular with private gun owners but not in NATO use.
Last month, we reported that the army bought 2,550,000 live rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo.
The Obama-backed Syria rebels could definitely use the 7.62x39mm for their AKs, especially considering that Congress has already cleared the CIA to openly ship munitions to them.
One last note: Egyptian security forces arrest brother of al-Qaeda's top leader Ayman al-Zawahri. I have to wonder where the Obama administration & other "useful idiots" will stand on such a situation? They will probably want to fund his safe travel out of Egypt .... nothing like being "political correct."
We know there is a virtual blood-bath in Cairo, Egypt.
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The U.S. Army is buying almost 600,000 Soviet AK-47 magazines, enough to hold nearly 18,000,000 rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo which is not standard-issue for either the U.S. military or NATO.
All the magazines combined weigh more than the operating weight of a C-5 Galaxy. Credit: USAF
A U.S. Army solicitation on the Federal Business Opportunities site asks for approximately 592,825 new AK 30-round magazines.
The solicitation even refers to the magazines as being for “non-standard weapons.”
More specifically, they are for the AK-47 designed by the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War, which is now commonly used by opposition forces in proxy wars around the world.
[....] Last month, we reported that the army bought 2,550,000 live rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo.
[....] The Obama-backed Syria rebels could definitely use the 7.62x39mm for their AKs, especially considering that Congress has already cleared the CIA to openly ship munitions to them.
In 2012, ARDEC looked for a vendor who could “reach around the world at any given moment to gather and provide multiple types of weapons and weapon parts.”
The weapons requested included both foreign non-standard and obsolete U.S. military weapons, such as the aforementioned AK-47, 1911s and M1903 Springfields.
Expect to see even more large orders for “non-standard” ammunition in the future.
