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Оружия, котор дали к Ираку пропавши
Среда 7-ое август 2007
Предварительными подчетами GAO 30% из рукояток будут Unaccounted - для Пентагон теряет след около 190.000 AK-47 assault винтовки и пистолеты, котор дали к иракским силам безопасности в 2004 и 2005, согласно новому отчету о правительства, поднимая опасаются что некоторые из тех оружий падали в руки бунтарей воюя США. усилия внутри Ирак. Автор рапорта от Офис отчетности правительства говорит США. воинско должностные лица не знают случилось до 30 процентов оружий Соединенные Штаты распределенные к иракским усилиям от 2004 через раньше этот год как часть усилия натренировать и не оборудуют войска. Самый высокий ранее предварительный подчет unaccounted-for оружий был 14.000, в рапорте выданном в прошлом году генералитетом контролера для реконструкции Ирака. Соединенные Штаты тратят $19.2 миллиарда пытаясь начать иракские силы безопасности с 2003, сказанное GAO, вклюающ по крайней мере $2.8 миллиарда для того чтобы купить и поставить оборудование. Но сказанное GAO распределение оружий было haphazard и поспешено и сумено для того чтобы последовать за установил процедуры, определенно от от 2004 до 2005, когда тренировка обеспеченностью была водить мимо Генератор. H. Дэвид. Petraeus, который теперь дает команду на проведение всех США. усилия в Ираке. Пентагон не оспорил заключения GAO, говорить он запускал свое собственное исследование и показывать его работает для того чтобы улучшить отслеживать. Хотя управление затягивано с 2005, невозможность Соединенных Штатов отслеживать оружия с инструментами such as серийные номера делает его близко невозможно для США. воискаа для того чтобы знать сражает ли оно противника оборудованный американскими налогоплательщиками. «Они реально не имеют никакую идею где они,» сказали Rachel Stohl, старший аналитик на центре для данных по обороны которые изучали мал-рукоятки торговлю и после того как они получены инструктажи пентагона на вопросе. «Оно правоподобные середины что Соединенные Штаты unintentionally снабубегут оружия плохие актеры.» Одно старшее должностное лицо пентагона подтвердило что некоторые из оружий вероятно используются против США. усилия. Он процитировал иракскую бригаду созданную на Fallujah то быстро растворило в сентябре 2004 и повернуло свои оружия против американцов. Stohl said insurgents frequently use small-arms fire to force military convoys to move in a particular direction — often toward roadside bombs. She noted that the Bush administration frequently complains that Iran and Syria are supplying insurgents but has paid little attention to whether U.S. military errors inadvertently play a role. “We know there is seepage and very little is being done to address the problem,” she said. Stohl noted that U.S. forces, focused on a fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction after Baghdad fell, did not secure massive weapons caches. The failure to track small arms given to Iraqi forces repeats that pattern of neglect, she added. The GAO is studying the financing and weapons sources of insurgent groups, but that report will not be made public. “All of that information is classified,” said Joseph A. Christoff, the GAO’s director of international affairs and trade. In an unusual move, the train-and-equip program for Iraqi forces is being managed by the Pentagon. Normally, the traditional security assistance programs are operated by the State Department, the GAO reported. The Defense Department said this change permitted greater flexibility, but as of last month it was unable to tell the GAO what accountability procedures, if any, apply to arms distributed to Iraqi forces, the report said. Iraqi security forces were virtually nonexistent in early 2004, and in June of that year Petraeus was brought in to build them up. No central record of distributed equipment was kept for a year and a half, until December 2005, and even now the records are on a spreadsheet that requires three computer screens lined up side by side to view a single row, Christoff said. The GAO found that the military was consistently unable to collect supporting documents to “confirm when the equipment was received, the quantities of equipment delivered, and the Iraqi units receiving the equipment.” The agency also said there were “numerous mistakes due to incorrect manual entries” in the records that were maintained. The GAO reached the estimate of 190,000 missing arms — 110,000 AK-47s and 80,000 pistols — by comparing the property records of the Multi-National Security Transition Command for Iraq against records Petraeus maintained of the arms and equipment he had ordered. Petraeus’s figures were compared with classified data and other records to ensure that they were accurate enough to compare against the property books. In all cases, the gaps between the two records were enormous. Petraeus reported that about 185,000 AK-47 rifles, 170,000 pistols, 215,000 pieces of body armor and 140,000 helmets were issued to Iraqi security forces from June 2004 through September 2005. But the property books contained records for 75,000 AK-47 rifles, 90,000 pistols, 80,000 pieces of body armor and 25,000 helmets. A military commander involved in the program at the time, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the report, acknowledged in an e-mail, “We did issue some items, including weapons, body armor, etc. to new Iraqi units that were literally going into battle.” But, the commander argued, “there was, frankly, not much of a choice early on: We had very little staff and could have held the weapons until every piece of the logistical and property accountability system was in place, or we could issue them, in bulk on some occasions, to the U.S. elements supporting Iraqi units who were needed in the battles of Najaf, Fallujah, Mosul, Samarra, etc.” The GAO plans to look for similar problems in the training of Afghan security forces. During the Bosnian conflict, the United States provided about $100 million in defense equipment to the Bosnian Federation Army, and the GAO found no problems in accounting for those weapons. Much of the equipment provided to Iraqi troops, including the AK-47s, originates from countries in the former Soviet bloc. In a report last year, Amnesty International said that in 2004 and 2005 more than 350,000 AK-47 rifles and similar weapons were taken out of Bosnia and Serbia, for use in Iraq, by private contractors working for the Pentagon and with the approval of NATO and European security forces in Bosnia. Have Your Say: Weapons Given to Iraq Are Missing Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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