Hundreds Of Thousands Of U.S.-Supplied Weapons Missing In Afghanistan

[Purveyor]

AFP-JIJI

WASHINGTON – Washington and Kabul have failed to keep track of hundreds of thousands of weapons provided to Afghanistan, raising the risk that some could end up in the hands of insurgents, a U.S. audit said Monday.

The United States also had delivered more weapons than Afghan forces now needed, partly because Kabul officials had revised their requests over time, the report said.

Since 2004, the American military has delivered more than 747,000 AK-47 rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers and other weapons to Afghan forces worth about $626 million.

But the U.S. and Afghan governments have botched record-keeping for the weapons, with potentially tens of thousands of assault rifles and other arms unaccounted for, according to the findings of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

“Given the Afghan government’s limited ability to account for or properly dispose of weapons, there is a real potential for these weapons to fall into the hands of insurgents,” the report said.

[defacto7]

1. potential?

No of course not... they turned them into back scratchers.

I'm sure they have made their way to exactly where they are thought to be.

[hedda_foil]

2. Zut alors! Quel suprise!

This is news?

[NaturalHigh]

3. Gee, what could possibly go wrong here?

[G_j]

4. botched ?

botched ?? BS

[JDPriestly]

5. Oh no. This is criminal neglect. People will die because of these missing weapons.

Some of it may be poor accounting but still. This is deplorable. Criminally irresponsible.

[jmowreader]

6. Oh, they're not missing. We know exactly where they are.

They're in the hands of people who don't like the US.

[libodem]

7. Probably where ever an armed insurgency erupts

Hmmmm could it be Syria, Libia, Iraq, Gaza, hmmmmm?

[jmowreader]

10. Since they're AKs, it could be anywhere

I think at least half of them are now in the possession of Al Qaeda patriots (remember, no one but a terrorist refers to himself as a "freedom fighter" or a "patriot&quot who view the fact they came into the area courtesy of the USA to be a fun conversation starter.

[G_j]

8. yep nt

[Adsos Letter]

9. A slight misinterpretation of the U.S. Tax code...

...and the government threatens to toss me in jail.

Then I read this.