A steady stream of weapons from the Balkan has been flowing
across the border and into Syrian rebels hands since December,
thanks to some clandestine assistance from Saudi Arabia.
According to the New York Times scoop on Monday night, the
Saudis have been buying large quantities of small arms — "a
particular type of Yugoslav-made recoilless gun, as well as
assault rifles, grenade launchers, machine guns, mortars and
shoulder-fired rockets" — from Croatia and shipping them to
Syria via Jordan. As one of the United States' strongest and
most important allies in the region, Saudi Arabia's more
assertive assistance hints at more involvement from Western and
regional powers, as the conflict between Syrian president Bashar
al-Assad and his people remains a stalemate.  News of the deeper
Saudi involvement also raises the question of exactly what the
United States is already doing to arm or otherwise assist the
Syrian opposition. Ahead of the Times report, Secretary of State
John Kerry revealed at a press conference