Weapons for Iraqi forces delayed: Pentagon

[OneAngryDemocrat]

Source: abc.net.au

Figures released by the Pentagon in the US have highlighted delays in the delivery of much-needed equipment to the Iraqi armed forces.

Little more than a third of the weapons promised to Baghdad have been transferred so far.

The US military commander in charge of training in Iraq has asked for help in speeding up the process.

Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Jonathan Wittington says the department is doing all it can to send out the items.

"We're working hand in hand with the Iraqis to provide that training and equipment."

The Defence Department data appears to confirm what Iraqi officials have long been complaining about.

Iraq's ambassador to Washington, Samir Samadei, said this week that the Iraqi armed forces are frustrated at the delays and the delivery of weapons from multinational forces.

He says bureaucracy is hindering the capacity of the Iraqi military to keep fighting.


Read more: http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/27/1990536.htm?section=world

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[UpInArms]

1. wouldn't it be lovely if all of the military industrial complex

just vanished from the earth?

a slingshot and a few pebbles should be all that any of them have.

[CGowen]

2. But arming Sunni insurgents is working

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_confirms_it_arming_Sunni_insurgents_0610.html

The U.S. military has confirmed that it is arming Sunni insurgent factions to try to contain al-Qaida in Mesopotamia, according to a report in Monday's New York Times by veteran Iraq correspondent John Burns.

"With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight militants linked with Al Qaeda who have been their allies in the past."

....

[Xipe Totec]

3. Could this be the reason that attacks on US forces are down?

The Iraqis are running out of ammo?

I'm just saying... :shrug:

[sutz12]

4. Not to worry....we're arming the Saudis...everyone knows they have no terrorist ties.

:sarcasm: