Thursday, December 6, 2007

Over $1B in military equipment missing

Laura Strickler of the CBS News Investigative Unit has the exclusive story on over $1B of military equipment missing/unaccounted for in Iraq:

Tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, crates of machine guns and rocket propelled grenades are just a sampling of more than $1 billion in unaccounted for military equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces .... Auditors for the Inspector General reviewed equipment contracts totaling $643 million but could only find an audit trail for $83 million.... according to the report, the military could not account for 12,712 out of 13,508 weapons, including pistols, assault rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers and machine guns....

IG's report

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