The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) uncovered four tons of US-made M58A3 C4 line charges during a recent search operation in the Yarmouk basin in western Daraa, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) revealed on June 1.
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The M58A3 line charges are a part of the M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC) system, which was designed to provide a “close-in” demining capability for the U.S. Army. Each charge is more than 106meters long. They are usually deployed with a MK22 Mod 4 rocket.
Between 2017 and 2018, Free Syrian Army (FSA) groups used the MICLIC system as an offensive weapon against the SAA’s positions in the southern city of Daraa.
This was not the first time the SAA uncovered explosive charges of the MICLIC in southern Syria. Last February, the army found several M58A3 charges in a former military base in the region.
The MICLIC system was supplied to FSA groups in Daraa and al-Quneitra by the US-led Military Operations Center (MOC) in Jordan. The MOC was dissolved last year following the defeat of the FSA in southern Syria on the hands of the SAA.
“…Between 2017 and 2018, Free Syrian Army (FSA) groups used the MICLIC system as an offensive weapon against the SAA’s positions in the southern city of Daraa…”
They would have to have been pretty dumb to do that. That’s not why the U.S. trained them in IED contstruction and gave them all that C4. I wonder if those headchoppers even had a full MCLIC system to use as intended.
Between 2013 and now, al Qaeda affiliates (like the FSA) have been blowing the arms and legs off of Syrians with hundreds of these “IED factory in a trailer”. Good quality, stable C4, blasting caps, detonation cord. It must have been like Christmas for an al Qaeda ‘bomb expert’ trained by the US in Jordan. Some day, they may be using this on US troops – the ones sent to ‘defend’ Israel. The source of the C4 is normally identifiable by molecular taggants, but treasonous SOUTHCOM commanders will never be blamed for killing their own. They either had ‘clean’ C4 sent to al Qaeda, or IED residue sent back to the states will be misidentified. I’m sure many of the so-called Syria ‘barrel bombs’ were really from FSA head-choppers using US-supplied C4.
4 tons of C4 and blasting cord, WOW ! I am sure Syria can put it to good use. You can see the ones in white separated out to make IEDs.
Correct, the M58A3 snake was just a convenient way of supplying C4 for use in IEDs etc.. as the C4 bricks are easily separated from the outer sleeve and detcord. AFAIK the launchers were never supplied. Meantime SAA deployed equivalent UR-77 at Qaboun, East Ghouta last year, chronicled by ANNA per screenshot https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/99cf3fda36c93490110cc555639bdb80bc27bf75599ae26b5d34b8e6135e390e.jpg
Qaboun district ,Ghouta East, UR-77 MICLIC https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c5ac681be2f84b8d9d25a5ae8aefb3acfe9c31a2ed22102ea757b3a59a9f52ac.jpg