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Iran-made Weapons Less Than 1% Of All Iraq Caches Found
Newshoggers.com — ... Over 190,000 US-provided guns found their way onto the black market in Iraq, simply disappearing from inventory after lax US and Iraqi accounting. Some even found their way to Turkey, into the hands of PKK terrorists. And to this day, no-one has held Gen Petreaus accountable for those 190,000 guns - weighing in excess of 475 tons* and worth over $50 million at non-black market prices or about twice that on the street - ...

Iran-made Weapons Less Than 1% Of All Iraq Caches Found
Crooks and Liars — ... . It's a buyer's market and the Iranians are seeing market forces exclude their produce, with the exception of simple artillery rockets. They're more expensive than the Pakistani arms bazaar's copies coming down the old Silk Road routes and far less effective than easily available and comparitively-priced black market US weapons too. Over 190,000 US-provided guns found their way onto the black market in Iraq, simply disappearing from inventory after lax US and Iraqi accounting. Some even found their way to Turkey , into the hands of PKK terrorists. And to this day, no-one has ...

An Afghan Surge - In Waste And Corruption
Newshoggers.com — ... and other arms, valued on the black market at up to $800 million went missing, partly to turn up in the hands of Kurdish terrorists in Turkey, and Petraeus' aide is believed to be involved in at least some of that trafficking. During the same period, ...

An Afghan Surge - In Waste And Corruption
Crooks and Liars — ... and other arms, valued on the black market at up to $800 million went missing, partly to turn up in the hands of Kurdish terrorists in Turkey, and Petraeus' aide is believed to be involved in at least some of that trafficking. During the same period, ...

McKiernan Put Between A Petraeus And A Hard Place
Newshoggers.com — ...  and leading to over 180,000 "missing" weapons, at least some of which fell into extremist and criminal hands. Despite being the man where the buck was supposed to stop, Petraeus was treated with immense deferrence by both the military and the media. If he has decided to aim for even higher command, ...

Guns and a global black market
Newshoggers.com — ... The crew at the Newshoggers has long argued that most weapons in Iraq were from either abandoned depots or the result of a global search for profits. Massive black market arms flows supply all sides and sometimes multiple sides of the conflict off the same shipping lot.  ...