For months, the U.S. has been helping Arab allies coordinate arms shipments to rebel fighters in Syria. Click “more” below to find out where those weapons are going and how this could hurt the U.S. in the long wrong.

DJ Matthew Tyler

Some of these weapons are going to radical Islamists instead of secular opposition groups.  According to a classified government report uncovered by David Sanger of The New York Times, the flood of Saudi and Qatari weapons into Syria is strengthening the hand of extremist groups in the country, including those with ties to Al Qaeda.

“The opposition groups that are receiving the most of the lethal aid are exactly the ones we don’t want to have it,” a U.S. official says. Not only is there the fear that the weapons could bolster anti-American insurgent groups, but these extremist groups could hold sway in a future Syrian government should President Bashar al-Assad be removed.  “The longer this goes on, the more likely those groups will gain strength,” a Middle East diplomat tells the Times.

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