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US Pays Clandestine Gun Dealers to Flood Iraq with Millions of Weapons
24 September 2008
Asia Times / Inter Press Service News Agency
SAN FRANCISCO — Clandestine gun suppliers, funded by the United States and Iraqi governments, have flooded Iraq with millions of weapons since 2003, charges a new Amnesty International investigation.
Because of faulty or non-existent government tracking systems, many of those guns have gone missing, and some have turned up in the hands of insurgents.
Contracts with one of these companies, Taos Industries, account for almost half of the US$217 million Baghdad and... (GunPolicy.org)