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May 12, 2006

Weapons Disappear en Route to Iraq

It looks as if weapons are joining pallets of cash in Iraq, disappearing without a trace.

The Pentagon has secretly shipped tens of thousands of small arms from Bosnia to Iraq in the past two years, using a web of private companies, at least one of which is a noted arms smuggler blacklisted by Washington and the UN.

According to a report by Amnesty International, which investigated the sales, the US government arranged for the delivery of at least 200,000 Kalashnikov machine guns from Bosnia to Iraq in 2004-05. But though the weaponry was said to be for arming the fledgling Iraqi military, there is no evidence of the guns reaching their recipient. Senior western officials in the Balkans fear that some of the guns may have fallen into the wrong hands.

Are we secretly arming some force somewhere? Is this Iran Contra all over again? Are there any rebel forces or, god forbid, terrorist groups showing up with huge numbers of Kalashnikov machine guns? Or are we to believe that, like the millions of dollars in missing cash, the problem here is a paperwork error and not a matter of interception, covert redirection, or misuse of resources?

Posted by Becky at May 12, 2006 02:22 PM

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