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Pentagon Has No Idea Where Hundreds of Thousands of Guns Went in Iraq and Afghanistan
Pentagon Has No Idea Where Hundreds of Thousands of Guns Went in Iraq and Afghanistan
Over half of 1.4 million guns U.S. shipped into Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 are unaccounted for in DoD's own records, watchdog discovers
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/25/pentagon-has-no-idea-where-hundreds-thousands-guns-went-iraq-and-afghanistan
By: Nika Knight
Date: 2016-08-25
The U.S. government has shipped over 1.4 million guns to Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11, according a new analysis by the U.K.-based watchdog Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), but the Pentagon is only able to account for fewer than half of them.
AOAV released its analysis of publicly available data on U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contracts on Wednesday, and added that when requested to provide its own accounting for the small arms provided to the war-torn nations, “the DoD data shows that over 700,000 small arms were sent from the U.S. to Iraq and Afghanistan within these periods. However, this amount only accounts for 48 percent of the total small arms supplied by the U.S. government that can be found in open source government reports.”
“What to do?” writes C.J. Chivers in the New York Times. “If past is precedent, given enough time one of the United States' solutions will be, once again, to ship in more guns.” (Photo: Rahmat Gul/Associated Press)
Source: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2016/09/pentagon-has-no-idea-where-hundreds-of.html
