PART II - British soldiers killed with US weapons

PART II

There are similarities to the situation the US government finds itself in now:

Blackwater was caught shipping weapons to Iraq without permits. The State Department attempted to block all investigations of Blackwater, claiming all records of Blackwater's actually belonged to the US government, and thus, required State Dept. permission for release. The State Department's decision blocked all inquiries into the extensive corruption of the Iraqi government.

State Department Inspector General Howard "Cookie" Krongard repeatedly blocked investigations into Blackwater. It turns out he's the brother of Alvin Bernard "Buzzy" Krongard, who sits on the Advisory board of Blackwater.

Some history on Buzzy: Buzzy was the Executive Director of the CIA on 9/11, {joining CIA in 1998 as counsel to Tenet} and up until 1997, had been chairman of the investment bank (Alex. Brown) that was used for the mysterious "put" options on 9/11 (on the most aggregiously affected companies. After leaving the CIA in late 2004, Buzzy was named non-executive chairman of the board of PHH Corp, which provides mortgage and fleet management services. In March of 2005, he was named to the global board of directors of the law firm of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP. DLA Piper's board of directors includes chairman and former United States Senator George J. Mitchell.

Blackwater also has a "spy outfit" -- The Prince Group owns Blackwater Worldwide, and Total Intelligence Solutions.

... Its chairman is Cofer Black, the former head of counterterrorism at CIA, known for his leading role in many of the agency's more controversial programs, including the rendition and interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects and the detention of some of them in secret prisons overseas. Its chief executive is Robert Richer, a former CIA associate deputy director of operations who was heavily involved in running the agency's role in the Iraq war.

Aides to IG "Cookie" Krongard threatened investigators within his own office to prevent them from cooperating with the investigations into Iraq corruption and Blackwater's arms smuggling. Several of his staff have sought whistle-blower protections.

Matthew Lee reported for the Associated Press on September 22, 2007 (see Washington Post) that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Raleigh, N.C., with help from Pentagon and State Department auditors, was investigating whether weapons smuggled illegally into Iraq by Blackwater were sold on the black market, ending up in the hands of "terrorists".

The Turks had discovered PKK with the weapons and gave the serial numbers to US investigators.

Robert Fisk reported on the flood of weaponry into Lebanon:

...There are growing fears, moreover, that many of these guns are from the vast stock of 190,000 rifles and pistols which the US military "lost" when they handed them out to Iraqi police officers without registering their numbers or destination. The American weapons included 125,000 Glock pistols. The Lebanese-Iraqi connection is anyway well established. A growing number of suicide bombers in Iraq come from the Lebanese cities of Tripoli and Sidon....