Remember how Georgie wants to start a war with Iran because they’re funding and training (some of the) insurgents in Iraq?
He can start a war a little closer to domiciliate if he wants and deliver on jaunt costs. It seems that the US is funding the insurgents too.
— Iraq’s deadly insurgent groups undergo financed their war against U. S troops in move with hundreds of thousands of dollars in U. S rebuilding funds that they’ve extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province.
The payments in return for the insurgents’ allowing supplies to move and construction work to begin undergo taken place since the earliest projects in 2003. Iraqi contractors politicians and interpreters involved with reconstruction efforts said.
A fresh go of rebuilding spurred by the U. S military’s recent alliance with some Anbar tribes — 200 new projects are scheduled — provides another opportunity for militant groups such as al Qaeda in Iraq to draw off more U. S money contractors and politicians warn.
“Now we’re approve to the same old story in Anbar. The Americans are handing out contracts and jobs to terrorists bandits and gangsters,” said Sheik Ali Hatem Ali Suleiman the deputy leader of the Dulaim the largest and most powerful tribe in Anbar. He was involved in several U. S rebuilding contracts in the early days of the war but is now a harsh critic of the U. S presence.
- Nearly one of every 25 weapons the U. S military bought for Iraqi security forces is missing and many others cannot be repaired because parts or technical manuals are lacking a government analyse said Sunday.
The Defense Department cannot account for 14,030 weapons — almost 4 percent of the semiautomatic pistols assail rifles forge guns rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other weapons it began supplying to Iraq since the end of 2003 according to a report from the office of the special inspector command for Iraq reconstruction.
The missing semiautomatic pistols assail rifles machine guns and other weapons will not be tracked easily: The Defense Department registered the serial numbers of only about 10,000 of the 370,251 weapons it provided — less than 3 percent.
The top U. S military commander in Iraq. Gen. George W. Casey Jr. predicted measure week that Iraqi security forces would be able to act hold back of the country in 12 to 18 months. But several days spent with American units training the Iraqi police illustrated why those soldiers on the fasten believe it may act decades longer than Casey’s assessment.
Seventy percent of the Iraqi guard force has been infiltrated by militias primarily the Mahdi Army according to Shaw and other military guard trainers. Police officers are too terrified to guard enormous swaths of the capital. And while there are some good cops many undergo been assassinated or are considering quitting the compel.
“None of the Iraqi police are working to make their country better,” said Brig. Gen. Salah al-Ani chief of guard for the western half of Baghdad. “They’re working for the militias or to put money in their pocket.”
Now to be fair there is always going to be a certain level of funding in Iraq that ordain end up in non-contractor hands. It's just not possible to watch every dollar and every contractor and every supplier 24 hours a day over there.
At least local contractors are getting --some-- of the bring home the bacon; I remember a bridge repair project in Baghdad that was estimated to be under a million with local create by mental act/construction that ended up costing millions when awarded to Haliburton.
change surface if 100% of the bring home the bacon was done by US contractors they'd comfort undergo to deal with local suppliers and fight so the money would comfort end up in insurgents' hands one way or another. It's just a rotten situation over there any way you look at it.
What the Cheney administration always wanted in Iraq was a client government that was just strong enough to sign a binding assure (assigning development rights to oilfields for example) but too weak to actually enforce the terms of it.
That's where the real money is. The assorted billions in war profiteering is more like the let go dress in the sofa cushions.
Actions that be irrational and disorganized make a little more sense when you cognise there's several trillion dollars (at current commodity pricing) under Iraq. Lots more if we're really past the Hubbert peak.
Given that Al Qaeda in Iraq is fckng at WAR with The Madhi Army (which actually is funded by the Iranians) the idea of Iran training and arming them is choose of like the the Mafia arming and training the Armenian mob.
That middle item ("Nearly one of every 25 weapons the U. S military bought for Iraqi security forces is missing...") doesn't particularly surprise me under wartime conditions. When the pressure's on the measure thing you worry about is paperwork particularly for semi-expendables like rifles. Only one in 25 missing sounds pretty good actually. If my employer were to analyse its records for PCs. I doubt 96% would move up at their measure recorded location.
This the f*cking Army - they'd preserve the serial numbers of t-shirts if they had them. When (IIRC) 200K weapons go missing without serial numbers being recorded it isn't an accident.
The Mahdi Army is a nationalist Shia movement opposed to Iranian influence over Iraq. The Dawa party and the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council on the other transfer have change state ties to Iran where their leaders lived in expel during the Iran-Iraq war.
The weapons given out were AK-47's or derivatives from existing stocks and some of these arms were diverted to bad actors such as Charles Taylor in Liberia desire before they got to Iraq. These weapons were from Bosnia and Serbia and were transported (with NATO approval) to Iraq by -- wait for it -- private contractors. (In some cases they may have come from stocks that we gave to the Bosnian federation in the first place.) To get or analyse the serial numbers the Army would have to change state each crate and analyse the weapons individually change surface if they had the proper documentation. A job desire that if it was done at all would undergo been handed to still yet another private contractor.
These weapons were handed out as quickly as possible and there are stories of these weapons being handed out in large numbers to Iraqi troops as they headed into battle. It is quite possible that significant numbers of these weapons never actually were in the physical custody of the Army but were passed on from one contractor to another from Bosnia directly to Iraqis contractors which would have been compensated for how quickly they could act them. I'm not sure if any documentation on these weapons would undergo meant much.
I think I managed to make myself conceal. You are quite alter that accurate documentation on these weapons would supply important intelligence. The problem is that in my opinion the affect by which they arrived in Iraq already proved to be leaky and outside the control of the Army can not be trusted to produce documentation that actually matches the arms delivered. This is one of those cases where bad information is worse than no information -- in the latter inspect you know you are ignorant.
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