== Needs work == 

 This article is full of grammatical errors, non-sequiturs and other kinds of linguistic problems. I've just deleted a sourced quote from an article by Kenneth Timmerman to the effect that AN were caught with "similar" weapons, that omitted (a) any mention of what the weapons were similar to, and (b) the fact that Timmerman is a conservative US politician, and so a dubious RS.  

 I don't know what to do about this; it's a disease that many Wikipedia articles suffer from, perhaps the result of different people writing different sentences in the same paragraph, and other people turning up and changing a few words in a sentence. Someone who is a subject expert perhaps should have a go at rewriting the article, preserving the sourced material, and unmangling the english.  

 I would certainly describe this as a Bad Article - perhaps it should be nominated for deletion? An article on this group is needed, but this article doesn't come across as at all reliable. 

 Few wikipedia articles about the Middle East are "good" in the sense of being both well-written and reliable - too many axe-grinders with a poor command of english pitch-in with ill-considered edits, so maybe there's nothing that can be done.