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Courtesy of U.S. Army Members of the team assist Sgt. Benjamin Park, a diver searching for a machine gun in the Tigris River. Rick Scavetta / S&S When a forklift fell in the Tigris River near Tikrit, Iraq, last week, divers from the 74th Engineer Detachment decided not to risk their lives in the fast moving current. Courtesy of U.S. Army Soldiers form the 74th Engineer Detachment dive team "Poseidon" begin searching a lake northeast of Baghdad for weapons of mass destruction. Drowned soldier not left behind TIKRIT, Iraq — A few weeks ago, soldiers from the 74th Engineer...

A search on google.com for "missing ordnance" and "stolen weapons" found page after page of articles and studies from around the world about this rampant problem. Israel. South Africa. The U.S. England, etc. And not just handguns and ammo, but missiles, grenades, launchers, even weapons grade uranium. All over the world weapons have been stolen or simply misplaced. Who has these weapons, and what are their intentions? And why hasn't anyone reported on just how bad the problem is. All you find are articles about individual incidents.

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/15/02 Unexploded Ordnance aplenty, First Iranian visit in Years, Unfair Burqa in Hot Summer, Bagram, Kabul, Kandahar, Lawyers Interfere with Justice, Demolition and Possible Transfer, Photos of Perps in Gaza, Shootout at Ein el-Hilweh ==Bagram, Afghanistan == In Bagram, 764th EOD Co. (Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company) Army soldiers are still destroying unexploded Russian-made RPG-7 rocket propelled grenades. In Bagram, at the runway there is bad weather. ==Kabul, Afghanistan == In Kabul, surveillance by SF and disdain by local forces as Iran's Khatami visits. This was the first visit to Afghanistan by an...