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The U.S. military lost track of hundreds of thousands of firearms it
brought to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a New York Times Magazine
report. The Pentagon doesn’t even know exactly how many weapons it took
to the two countries in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror
attacks, and only about 48 percent of the best estimate can be accounted
for in government records. Based on incomplete documents, it appears as
though the Department of Defense provided at least 1.45 million
firearms to forces in the two countries. That includes more than 978,000
assault rifles, about 266,000 pistols, and nearly 112,000 machine guns.
About 700,000 of those weapons can be accounted for, and many of the
rest are now regularly sold online in Iraq. The attempt to count these
numbers has been led by author and former BBC journalist Iain Overton,
The Times writes. |
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