GAO: 242,000 Weapons Go Missing In Afghanistan (Iraq, government, Army, security)

[progressive25]

GAO auditors say the Army can’t for 242,000 weapons that were distributed to Afghan National Security Forces. In the report, the GAO says the location and disposition of these weapons are unknown.

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[ovcatto]

Sounds like an Iraq redeux.

[Xpat]

What the report actually says is that the weapons are not accounted for in a normal US government methods standards - it doesn't mean they are "lost" or "missing." The reported the same thing on Iraq last year and the newsies did not read the fine print.

Part of the problem with giving weapons to another country is that once you hand them over, they are responsible to manage and account for them in their own way (which sometimes means not at all).