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The New York TimesU.S. Is Said to Fail in Tracking Arms for IraqisBy JAMES GLANZPublished: October 30, 2006The American military has not properly tracked hundreds of thousands of weapons intended for Iraqi security forces and has failed to provide spare parts, maintenance personnel or even repair manuals for most of the weapons given to the Iraqis, a federal report released Sunday has concluded.The answers came Sunday from the inspector general's office, which found major discrepancies in American military records on where thousands of 9-millimeter pistols and hundreds of assault rifles and other weapons have ended up. The American military did not even take the elementary step of recording the serial numbers of nearly half a million weapons provided to Iraqis, the inspector general found, making it impossible to track or identify any that might be in the wrong hands.Exactly where untracked weapons could end up - and whether some have been used against American soldiers - were not examined in the report...Continue Reading This Article...
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