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So I'm researching some stuff regarding the line of supply for weapons into Syria. I'm reading a Seymour Hersch article and also a letter sent in later to rebuff Hersch's article, the letter is written by 4 academics, one of which works at Edinburgh University apparently as a shill. It's a long article which i won't reproduce but here is an extract from the rebuttal. I'll highlight what i'm talking about. " If we extract the core of Seymour Hersh’s article from the story of dark doings in the US military we find yet another plea for embracing the Assad regime as a ‘lesser evil’ (LRB, 7 January). We will point out just two of the egregious factual errors in Hersh’s account. First, he repeats the myth about weapons supplied to the FSA being passed on to IS; his source for this is IS itself, relayed by the German journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer, who wasn’t proved right over the 2012 Houla massacre. Hersh accepts what he has to say without question. As it happens there is hard intelligence on this matter. Conflict Armament Research has carried out an analysis of the weapons captured from IS by the YPG in Koban and northern Iraq which shows that IS’s stock of weapons is overwhelmingly made up of arms captured from the Syrian and Iraqi armies." Before i move to the bold look at the sophistry used against the source, he wasn't right about (note not wrong,) an unstated incident in Houla, so how can he be right here. That bit of sophistry got me suspicious so by the time i got to the other claims later i was skeptical. So i decided to access Conflict Armament Research and see what they said about the arms and the stock is "overwhelmingly" made up of captured arms from Syrian and Iraqi armies Conflict Armament Research Analysis of weapons and ammunition captured from Islamic State forces in Iraq and Syria 6 KEY FINDINGS ANTI-TANK ROCKETS M79 90 mm anti-tank rockets captured from IS forces in Syria are identical to M79 rockets transferred by Saudi Arabia to forces operating under the ‘Free Syrian Army’ umbrella in 2013. 1 US-MANUFACTURED WEAPONS ON THE BATTLEFIELD Islamic State forces have captured significant quantities of US-manufactured small arms and have employed hem on the battlefield. http://conflictarm.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Dispatch_IS_Iraq_Syria_Weapons.pdf Why are they writing into the paper as a 4some and lying?