Pentagon admits failing to follow up the transfer of US weapons in Iraq, one billion dollars

Pentagon admits failing to follow up the transfer of US weapons in Iraq, one billion dollars

Thursday , 25 May 2017 at 9:34

Pentagon admits failing to follow up the transfer of US weapons in Iraq one billion dollarsBAGHDAD / Sky Press

Revealed a regulatory report to the US Department of Defense, “Pentagon”, that the US military did not follow proper registration and military equipment and weapons worth more than US $ billion, submitted to the Iraqi army in the framework of training and equipment program. According to news agency quoted “Anatolia” Turkish.

It raised the US Department of Defense’s secret recipe and blocking the report, which was published in September 2016, under the title of “the failure of the army control relevant actors to monitor the number and locations of military equipment from the training and equipping of the Iraqi Army Fund”, and at the request of Amnesty International.

The training and equipping the Iraqi Army Fund, in 2015, the decision of the US Congress, where it was monitoring billion and $ 600 million for the program from the defense budget.

According to the report, the lack of US military conduct surveillance and follow-up on the correct weapons and equipment mentioned, is due to an inventory of weapons in the records and documents written by hand, instead of having an automated centralized system for it.

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