100 Years in Iraq and Afghanistan - Making It So

AEY, Inc - awarded $48.7M from a $298M contract in 2007, U.S. Army - weaponry for Afghani forces.

They may still have contracts in Iraq.

On Friday, a federal grand jury indicted arms dealer AEY and four company officials on charges, among others, that they committed procurement fraud and lied to U.S. officials about the origin of Chinese manufactured ammunition supplied by the company to Afghan forces in Afghanistan pursuant to a U.S. Government contract. Section 126.1 of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations provides that it is the policy of the United States to deny approvals for exports and imports of defense articles originating in China.

Today, Henry Waxman, the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a letter detailing evidence the Chairman said suggested that John L. Withers, II, the U.S. ambassador to Albania, was involved in efforts to conceal the origin of the Chinese ammunition. The Chinese-made ammunition was being sold to AEY by the Albanian Ministry of Defense through the Military Export Import Company of Albania (MEICO). -- ExportLaw Blog

MEICO is the Albanian piece of the Albanian-Rwandan-Israeli-South-African-United-Kingdom weaponizing of Africa. This has fueled and enabled the genocides and rapes and systematic destruction of the civilian population of Africa.

Efraim Diveroli's AEY Inc., his father Michael Diveroli's Worldwide Tactical, and his uncle Bar-Kochba Botach's Botach Tactical -- are listed in federal contractor databases as "disadvantaged" or "minority owned." Their claim is that they are Hasidic Jews, but in fact, they merely converted for a brief time, and do not follow the proscriptions and practices of the Hasidic order.

The Bountiful, Utah, owner of Vector Arms, Ralph G. Merrill, was also arrested, having provided some management advice to AEY.

Note that the eastern European countries that AEY had obtained ammunition from for the Afghani forces, had offered to DONATE it to Afghanistan: in December 2007 the President of Albania traveled to Iraq and made a personal offer to David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker to provide the ammo free of charge.

See more of Matthew Blake's coverage of this at the Washington Independent -

The Pentagon found earlier this year that AEY had sent crates of rifle cartridges to Afghanistan that had "disintegrated from extensive termite damage." Some of the ammunition was more than 60 years old. Asked by the Pentagon what happened, an unidentified AEY official admitted that he had delivered "shit ammo" to Afghanistan security forces.

AEY was the principle weapons supplier for security forces fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban. -- AEY Official Admitted Termite-Damaged Ammo Was No Good

Also note Lindsay Beyerstein's historical coverage of AEY, Botach, and Kley Zion.



Summing up: The Pentagon has awarded weapons contracts to a firm, which is, more than likely involved in the weaponizing of Africa, and has provided inferior weaponry and ammo to the native Afghani forces fighting the "former" CIA assets, al Qaeda, and in all likelihood, still have contracts in Iraq, probably supplying the native Iraqi forces, in their fight against those "former" CIA assets.

How better to ensure that your forces will be needed ... for the next 100 years ... than by providing the worst equipment and ammo to the native troops?



ed.: Two Americans killed 3 years ago in Iraq - Dale Stoffel/Wye Oak Technology and Joseph Wemple/CLI - weapons "refurbishment", repurposing, and .... "coal and mineral processing". Is there another "IranContra" effort going on between the DRC and Iraq? Coltan for weapons?

Note - Coltan was a major cargo for Viktor Bout. Bout flew thousands of flights of weapons supplies into Iraq.