One Million Weapons to Iraq; Many Go Missing - Alabama company controlled by a billionaire Kuwaiti

[bridgit]

...family is the biggest supplier of guns to Iraq. These weapons were paid for by the Pentagon which has lost track of them. A new Amnesty international report says that such unrestrained global arms trading schemes may have catastrophic human rights consequences.

Clandestine gun suppliers, funded by the U.S. and Iraqi governments, have flooded Iraq with a million 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 $217 million Baghdad and Washington have officially spent to arm the Iraqi army, police and security forces employed by various Iraqi ministries.

Taos was founded in 1989 by a former U.S. intelligence official in Madison, Alabama, to traffic Soviet weapons systems after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In October 2006 Taos was sold to a company controlled by the Sultans, a powerful Kuwaiti family that also controls billions of dollars worth of contracts for food supply and heavy equipment deliveries to U.S. bases throughout Iraq.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15184

[riverdeep]

1. Kinda like they 'lost' 9 billion dollars.

With accounting practices like that to set the example, is it any wonder we're in an economic mess?

Also, doesn't this make the US a rogue nation? Putting weapons into the hands of the enemy by design or incompetence is surely rogue-worthy.

[bridgit]

2. Yep, bush family are big pals with Kuwaiti', for a billionaire Kuwaiti family from a small tribal...

desert nation where everyone knows just who's standing next to everyone else and why; to 'buy into' an arms concern in Alabama and start up to funneling arms into a region oppressed by the bush family's no-bid crony republican war profiteers is beyond probability imo so yeah...

the lost 9bil, 33bil, the marching right past tons of unsecured ordnance, the 500bil & counting, the 700bil soon to be a trillion, millions of weapons to Iraq from under Alabama arms dealership run by Kuwaiti' I mean seriously; republicans i think have concluded and it would seem rightly so...that all that time spent setting up environs of plausible deniability was time wasted when they can pull this stuff off and no one asks any probative Q's anyway.

[riverdeep]

3. Kick for Sunday crowd. n/t