Posted on 07/28/2014 6:42:23 AM PDT by SJackson
The Pentagon has been unable to locate more than 40 percent of the firearms it has provided to Afghan security forces at a cost of $626 million, according to a report by a government oversight agency made public Monday.
The report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) states that the Defense Department's two information systems that track weapons sent to Afghanistan are full of errors. That has sparked fears that at least some of the weapons may be available on the black market, with militants among the potential purchasers.
According to the report and an article in The Washington Times, the Pentagon has sent 747,000 weapons and auxiliary equipment, mostly small arms, to Afghan forces over the past decade. The paper reported that of the 474,823 serial numbers recorded in the tracking database, 203,888 -- approximately 43 percent -- had missing or duplicate information. The Times reported that auditors had discovered that 24,520 serial numbers were repeated at least once in the database, and 50, 304 serial numbers had no shipping or receiving dates recorded for them.
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Like Libyan arms, I'm sure they'll be put to use, not necessarily good use.
Bottom line...They’re not in American hands and everyone else is a Muzzie....and connected to Muzzies in their other rotten countries.
I get sick of this constant call to “arm” other countries.
This is the result of this policy. They wanted to arm people in Syria, which they did out of Benghazi. They armed ISIS and seem to be unable to admit that they did.
Now they want to arm Ukraine.
In other words, soetoro gave them to his fellow islamists.
Obama wants everyone in the world armed—except you and me.
That is a fact.
Once again proving that “Military Intelligence” is an oxymoron.
“”at least some of the weapons may be available on the black market, with militants among the potential purchasers””
Shouldn’t that be past tense?
It was only a few years ago that the DOD (Pentagon) IG reported missing lap tops, trucks and all kinds of equipment to the tune of millions of dollars. I’m sure that has all been tracked down and accounted for. They just forgot to tell us.
Soon to be pointed at US servicemen
The odumbo administration’s Fast and Furious for Jihad’s.
Obama gave the weapons to ISIS
Total gun control in the USA will STOP this dangerous trend before it gets out of hand. Just look at how well it has worked in $hitcago and the District of Corruption so we need to extend it to the entire country so it will ultimately spread to the world! /s/
I imagine the Taliban has not “lost track” of many of them.
Well, what do you expect from illiteracy?
Put the ATF investigators on the case
Their problem is that though our weaponry is better at killing it needs a higher level of care and maintenance. That is why third world era so like the good old AK 47. Not as great a range but runs dirty rusty grimey almost as well as clean. Very good weapon for rough troops. Same as with all of our stuff all the way up to the Abrams tank
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