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US Enlisted Notorious Arms Dealer Viktor Bout to Fly 'Missing' Guns to Iraq
13 August 2007
Los Angeles Times, Opinion
The United States seems to be missing some guns in Iraq. Somehow, the U.S. military has lost track of 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles and 80,000 pistols that were supposedly delivered from our caches to Iraqi security forces.
It was classic bureaucratic bungling, the Government Accountability Office concluded last month in a report criticizing the Pentagon's failure to keep proper records and track weapons flows. But there may have been another factor — the government's... (GunPolicy.org)