{"id":103368,"date":"2014-01-04T21:43:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/saudi-arms-shipments-to-al-qaeda-rebels-waiting-behind-iraqs-borders-with-syria\/"},"modified":"2014-01-05T01:09:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:09:33","slug":"saudi-arms-shipments-to-al-qaeda-rebels-waiting-behind-iraqs-borders-with-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/saudi-arms-shipments-to-al-qaeda-rebels-waiting-behind-iraqs-borders-with-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arms Shipments to Al Qaeda Rebels Waiting behind Iraq\u2019s Borders with Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tens of vehicles carrying arms shipments from Saudi Arabia failed to cross the Iraqi border into Syria due to the Iraqi army&#8217;s ongoing operations in the Western Al-Anbar province which borders Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following the Iraqi Army&#8217;s operations against Al-Qaeda forces in Al-Anbar province, the Saudi arms shipments have been stuck behind Iraq&#8217;s borders with Syria. The Saudi arms shipments entered Iraq from the Saudi city of Nakheib and via Ar-Ar border crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 70 2-ton vehicles are waiting for the Iraqi army forces to end its operation and withdraw from the region giving them a chance to cross the border with Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicles are packed with explosives used for suicide attacks as well as anti-armor and anti-aircraft weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is still supporting the Al-Qaeda terrorist groups in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>While Turkey has closed a large part of its borders to terrorists and Jordan has also considered restrictions for the Saudi nationals who intend to sneak into Syria, Iraq&#8217;s desert borders where the government does not have a lot of military and security supervision are regarded as the best route for Saudi Arabia&#8217;s logistical supports for the terrorists in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi army started military operations in Huran and Al-Abyaz regions in the deserts of Al-Anbar province last week.<\/p>\n<p>With permission<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/english.farsnews.com\/newstext.aspx?nn=13921009001297\" target=\"_blank\">Fars News Agency<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of vehicles carrying arms shipments from Saudi Arabia failed to cross the Iraqi border into Syria due to the Iraqi army&#8217;s ongoing operations in the Western Al-Anbar province which borders Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Following the Iraqi Army&#8217;s operations against Al-Qaeda forces in Al-Anbar province, the Saudi arms shipments have been stuck behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}