Thursday, February 12, 2009

The Great Afghan Weapons Bazaar

Courtesy of Uncle Sam and he isn't even making them pay for all those goodies.
In a study to be released on Thursday, the Government Accountability Office found that the U.S. shipped some 242,000 weapons to Afghanistan during a nearly four year period before June 2008. The weapons included rifles, pistols, machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.

Despite policies to the contrary, the Defense Department did not maintain a complete inventory on more than a third of those weapons, according to the GAO.

Many weapons could not be linked to serial numbers, making it nearly impossible to verify receipt. And of the 41,000 with serial numbers, none could be tied to records confirming their location. The military also would forgo routine inventory checks because of staffing shortages and a lack of direction, GAO concluded.

Similar findings accompanied a review of some 135,000 weapons provided by foreign donors and managed by the U.S. military.
If we can not track the stuff we give away, how are we supposed to keep track of the bad guys?

// posted by montag @ 7:08 AM
Comments:
Didn't we go through this nonsense with the Iraqi Police? Do we ever learn a damn thing?

Fred Flintstone
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 9:31 AM
 

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