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Lexman1 hat geschrieben:Der Bericht des ORF war grenzwertig, PÜRSTL hingegen war unerwarteterweise sogar neutral und zurückhaltend.

Irgendwie hatte ich das Gefühl, dass der Bericht anders geplant war, das merkte man an den Fragen vom Wolf... Unterste Schublade!

Pentagon Admits "Lapses In Accountability" Led To Loss Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of US Guns In Afghanistan And Iraq

In all, Overton found, the Pentagon provided more than 1.45 million firearms to various security forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, including more than 978,000 assault rifles, 266,000 pistols and almost 112,000 machine guns.

One point is inarguable: Many of these weapons did not remain long in government possession after arriving in their respective countries. In one of many examples, a 2007 Government Accountability Office report found that 110,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles and 80,000 pistols bought by the United States for Iraq’s security forces could not be accounted for — more than one firearm for every member of the entire American military force in Iraq at any time during the war. Those documented lapses of accountability were before entire Iraqi divisions simply vanished from the battlefield, as four of them did after the Islamic State seized Mosul and Tikrit in 2014, according to a 2015 Army budget request to buy more firearms for the Iraqi forces to replace what was lost.
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Many of the recipients of these weapons became brave and important battlefield allies. But many more did not. Taken together, the weapons were part of a vast and sometimes minimally supervised flow of arms from a superpower to armies and militias often compromised by poor training, desertion, corruption and patterns of human rights abuses. Knowing what we know about many of these forces, it would have been remarkable for them to retain custody of many of their weapons. It is not surprising that they did not.

– US DoD published contracts worth over $40 billion on small arms, ammunition and attachments (if the upper limit listed on each contract was paid, the contracts would total $40,164,323,221). These included:
*$ 4.2 billion on small arms (guns through to 30mm – $4,287,730,438);
*$ 11.2 billion on attachments (e.g. sniper scopes, rifle grips, mounts, tripods – $11,227,280,979);
*$ 24.6 billion on munitions for small arms and upgrades to production facilities – ($24,649,311,805).

– Of these contracts the Federal Procurement Database System (FPDS) shows that $20 billion was spent by 10/Sep/15 ($19,967,689,999):
* $3 billion on small arms (guns through to 30mm -$2,893,209,118 );
* $4 billion on attachments (sniper scopes, rifle grips, mounts, tripods, etc. – $3,926,832,188);
* $13 billion on munitions for small arms and upgrades to production facilities ($13,147,648,692);
* Almost $10 billion was spent on contracts to modernise and upgrade ammunition factories.

– Over 1.45 million guns were given by the US government to Iraq and Afghanistan (1,452,910), part of $2.16 billion worth of small arms related contracts.
* Only 3 per cent of these weapon purchases were detailed on the daily DoD contract publications.
* When pushed, the US DoD admitted over 700,000 small arms were sent from the US to Iraq and Afghanistan by them.

Facebook Groups Act as Weapons Bazaars for Militias

While it was in power the Qaddafi regime tightly regulated the Libyan domestic arms trade, and local black market sales were virtually unheard of. Supplies were constrained as well—international sanctions prohibited the legal importation of arms into Libya from 1992 to 2003.1 Even when sanctions were lifted in September 2003 and international arms exports began to flow again (supplementing the Qaddafi regime’s already massive government arsenal), the domestic arms trade was stagnant (Jenzen-Jones and McCollum, forthcoming).
The Libyan revolution deposed the Qaddafi regime in 2011 and with it
brought to an end the Libyan state’s regulation of the arms trade. Military
stockpiles were raided, and small arms and light weapons made their way
into the hands of non-state armed groups and private sellers.

Stickhead hat geschrieben:http://waffg.info/nachrichten/11703-vol_at-Jaeger_sorgen_fuer_kuriosen_Einsatz

zu jagdicool ist wohl auch nix

johnbond01 hat geschrieben:Fernseher abmelden, Gis nicht zahlen, keinen reinlassen. Rechtlich unproblematisch, mach ich seit 6 Jahren so. "Ich habe keinen Fernseher...."