Thousands of guns U.S. sent to Afghanistan are missing

They're not missing. They know exactly where they are. They just don't want you to know they're in the hands of the Taliban and Pashtun tribesmen fighting NATO occupation forces. They want you to think this was all a bureaucratic SNAFU. Because - have I said this before? - war is a racket. There is no point in actually winning when the entire point of war is to reap maximum profits for the banksters who fund the war in the first place. And what about the opium? We can't let the Taliban re-take the country and ban heroin again, can we? Non-existant before we invaded, 92% of the global market 8 years later? And oh by the way, the opium trade that we facilitate helps fund the resistance. No, that's not planned.

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More than one-third of all weapons the United States has procured for Afghanistan's government are missing, according to a government report released Thursday.



U.S.-issue M249 squad automatic weapons
are shown at a camp in Kandahar in December.
The U.S. military failed to "maintain complete inventory records for an estimated 87,000 weapons -- or about 36 percent -- of the 242,000 weapons that the United States procured and shipped to Afghanistan from December 2004 through June 2008," a U.S. Government Accountability Office report states.

"Accountability lapses occurred throughout the supply chain," it says.

The Defense Department spent roughly $120 million during that period to acquire a range of small arms and light weapons for the Afghan National Security Forces, including rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.

The military also failed to properly account for an additional 135,000 weapons it obtained for the Afghan forces from 21 other countries.

"What if we had to tell families [of U.S. soldiers] not only why we are in Afghanistan but why their son or daughter died at the hands of an insurgent using a weapon purchased by the United States taxpayers? But that's what we risk if we were to have tens of thousands of weapons we provided washing around Afghanistan, off the books," Rep. John Tierney, D-Massachusetts, chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, said at the start of a congressional hearing on the report.

The military is unable to provide serial numbers for 46,000 of the missing 87,000 weapons, the report concludes. No records have been maintained for the location or disposition for the other 41,000 weapons.