The Daily Background
| U.S. screws up secret arms deal in Iraq
by Arlen Parsa
The Guardian reports that the U.S. failed at a secret arms deal to get 200,000, or 99 tons of (now missing in action) AK-47s to the fledgling Iraqi Army.
The Pentagon has secretly shipped tens of thousands of small arms from Bosnia to Iraq in the past two years, using a web of private companies, at least one of which is a noted arms smuggler blacklisted by Washington and the UN.
According to a report by Amnesty International, which investigated the sales, the US government arranged for the delivery of at least 200,000 Kalashnikov machine guns from Bosnia to Iraq in 2004-05. But though the weaponry was said to be for arming the fledgling Iraqi military, there is no evidence of the guns reaching their recipient.
Gee, I wonder who has them now? Full article.
