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Seized Weapons Caches Boost Syrian Rebels' Hopes
(Washington Post) Joby Warrick - Syrian rebels have seized large weapons caches in fighting during the past three weeks, including hundreds of advanced anti-tank missiles captured in fighting near Damascus and a sizable haul of armored vehicles, machine guns and rockets taken from a Syrian air base. Analysts say the Menagh air base north of Aleppo was overrun on Aug. 6 by a force of Western-backed rebels and radical Islamists who split the seized materiel, carting away truckloads of booty. During an early-August raid on an army depot in a Damascus suburb, rebel militias acquired hundreds of wire-guided anti-tank missiles, including French-made Milans and Russian Konkurs. Weapons experts say the highly accurate missiles are capable of destroying any tank in the Syrian army.