And do they have a problem with this?
(CNSNews.com) – In Saudi Arabia Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry played down concerns about weapons from U.S. Gulf allies ending up in the hands of radical jihadists in Syria, pointing instead to the arms the Assad regime is getting from Iran and others.
During a joint press appearance with his Saudi counterpart Saud al-Faisal, Kerry was asked, “Are the arms that Saudi Arabia is already providing to the Syrian rebels at risk of falling into the wrong hands and basically being part of the problem that you have identified?”
He replied that there was “no guarantee that one weapon or another might not at some point in time fall into the wrong hands,” but expressed optimism that the Syrian opposition was now able to “make certain that what goes to the moderate, legitimate opposition is, in fact, getting to them.”
Then – although the question obviously referred to jihadist elements among the anti-Assad rebels – Kerry turned the spotlight onto those arming the other side in the civil war.