Weapons shipped to Syrian rebels by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia were stolen by Jordanian intelligence and sold on the black market.  Some of the stolen weapons ended up in the hands of a Jordanian police captain who attacked a police training facility and killed 5, including two Americans. New York Times: The existence of the weapons theft, which ended only months ago after complaints by the American and Saudi governments, is being reported for the first time after a joint investigation by The New York Times and Al Jazeera. The theft, involving millions of dollars of weapons, highlights the messy, unplanned consequences of programs to arm and train rebels — the kind of program the C.I.A. and Pentagon have conducted for decades — even after the Obama administration had hoped to keep the training program in Jordan under tight control. The Jordanian officers who were part of the scheme reaped a windfall from the weapons sales, using the money to buy...(Read Full Post)