Ivan Angelovski, Lawrence Marzouk, Roberto Capocelli | BIRN

Small Croatian Island Becomes ‘Unofficial’ Pentagon Arms Supply Hub

A small airport on a Croatian island has become an important but unofficial logistical base for Pentagon shipments to the Middle East, likely including arms for Syrian rebels.

Ivan Angelovski, Lawrence Marzouk, Roberto Capocelli | BIRN
By Ivan Angelovski, Lawrence Marzouk, Roberto Capocelli | BIRN

Low-cost airlines packed with sun-seekers are the norm for Rijeka airport on the Croatian island of Krk. But since April, they have been sharing a runway with vast cargo planes carrying munitions and unidentified military supplies for the Pentagon’s wars in the Middle East, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has discovered. Reporters

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Pentagon Hires Scandal-Hit Brokers For Syria Arms Buy-up

The Pentagon’s battle against ISIS relies on an Eastern European arms supply-line operated, in part, by firms and executives linked to fraud, foreign bribery, Bulgarian organized crime and the death of a contractor.

Ivan Angelovski, Lawrence Marzouk, Roberto Capocelli | BIRN
By Ivan Angelovski, Lawrence Marzouk, Roberto Capocelli | BIRN
Pentagon Hires Scandal-hit Brokers for Syria Arms Buy-up

You just gotta be smarter than the government,” boasted arms dealer Marc Morales to an undercover FBI agent in 2008. He was explaining how he had secured lucrative arms deals abroad by giving so-called commissions -- including armored cars -- to intermediaries. Following the sting, Morales was indicted alongside 21 others for bribing a foreign

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