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More thousands of missing US weapons - this time in Afghanistan

Firedoglake found this 2/16/2009 on newshoggers.com

By Cernig ONE THIRD of all the weapons procured for the Afghan security forces are missing and can be presumed sold onto the black market. Worth roughly $40 million at wholesale cost (and weighing in excess of 200 tons) to the Pentagon, would anyone like to guess at the black market ...