Afghan Forces Lose Track of Deadly Weapons, Report Says

[alsame]

Afghan Forces Lose Track of Deadly Weapons, Report Says

By ABC News
Jul 28, 2014 3:33pm

By STEPHANIE LOPEZ

The Afghan armed forces are not keeping proper track of the hundreds of thousands of weapons given to them by the U.S. military, prompting fears U.S.-supplied arms could be falling into the hands of insurgents, a new U.S. government report says.

The report, from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), details troubling discrepancies in various inventory systems used by Afghan security forces to track the $626 million-worth of small arms and auxiliary equipment provided by the U.S. – some discrepancies indicating hundreds of weapons are unaccounted for.

In one case, an audit found over 900 weapons listed in the property book at the Afghan National Army’s Central Supply Depot weren’t actually there. The missing small arms included 740 M16 rifles and all 112 M23 pistols.

“ANSF [Afghan National Security Forces] record-keeping and inventory processes are poor and, in many cases, we were unable to conduct even basic inventory testing at the ANSF facilities we visited,” the SIGAR report says. “Although CSTC-A [Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan] has established end use monitoring procedures, the lack of adherence to these procedures, along with the lack of reliable weapons inventories, limits monitoring of weapons under Afghan control and reduces the ability to identify missing and unaccounted for weapons that could be used by insurgents to harm U.S., coalition, and ANSF personnel.”

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[PoliticAverse]

1. Someone expected them to keep proper paper work? n/t

[Swede Atlanta]

2. You cannot trust children with anything........

The same with the Iraqi military.

We should not be providing arms to Iraq, Afghanistan or any other "puppet" state. There is a high likelihood they will be sold off or given to our enemies.

We should never have attempted nation building in either Iraq or Afghanistan. They will go down in the history books a colossal failures. The peoples in these countries love to be subjugated and dominated. They don't want democracy. They are tribal peoples. I feel for the women especially and the girls but they have to change this from within.

We cannot change this from the outside....

[onethatcares]

3. I got an idea.

let's just send them more.

but we all know that will happen

[gratuitous]

4. Oh big deal - the payment cleared

As long as the contractors got their money for the weapons, who cares? If they fall into the wrong hands, all the better, because then we'll need to send thousands more weapons over to Afghanistan for the greater glory and fattened bottom line of suppliers. We call that job creation in the United States. Not to mention the increased need for doctors, nurses, and undertakers when those weapons are used against our own troops.

Gee whiz, let's get with the program. There's money to be made, campaign checks to be cut, and always more to pour into the bottomless maw of the war machine! Quit worrying about a few thousand missing rifles and stuff. It's not like some ignorant goatherder is going to get all the way to the United States and shoot important people in their gated communities.

[Iggo]

5. Lost. Sold. Whatever.