Where are all the weapons gone? by Claudia Sonea

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) stated that after all the fuss made over the war in Iraq, USA did not only failed to bring to a viable self-governance, but it also lost track of more than 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols. The Pentagon replied that arms deliveries procedures are to be reviewed. Brigadier General Abd-al-Karim Khalaf, a spokesman, told BBC that there is no evidence that the rebels have stolen the ammunition and his ministry was not consulted over the distribution. Gen David Petraeus, commander of all US forces in Iraq presented records that by comparison with those of the Multi-National Security Transition Command for Iraq and discovered the loss of the arms. US Defence Department admitted that the US-led coalition in Iraq has not succeeded to deliver at least the two-thirds of the equipment promised and Iraq's ambassador to the US revealed his concern that the delays and losses were affecting his army fighting capacity. Gen Petraeus and US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker will have to give a full report of Iraq's situation to Congress by mid-September. Meanwhile USA spends billions of dollars on a war that most of the Americans do not support; from 2003 $19.2bn were spent on it ($2.8bn spent on buying and deliver weapons and other equipment). What will happen next? The situation is getting worst every day and while humans lives are endangered, the US is at a loss to explain why there were only 14.5m of the nearly 40m items of equipment provided to Iraq's forces. For more information, stay close.

related story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6932710.stm

by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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