Posted on 03/17/2015 12:22:31 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The Pentagon is unable to account for more than $500 million in U.S. military aid given to Yemen amid fears that the weaponry, aircraft and equipment is at risk of being seized by Iranian-backed rebels or al-Qaeda, according to U.S. officials.
With Yemen in turmoil and its government splintering apart, the Defense Department has lost its ability to monitor the whereabouts of U.S.-donated small arms, ammunition, night-vision goggles, patrol boats, vehicles and other supplies. The situation has grown worse since the United States closed its embassy in Sanaa, the capital, last month and withdrew many of its military advisers.
In recent weeks, members of Congress have held closed-door meetings with U.S. military officials to press for an accounting of the arms and equipment. Pentagon officials have said they have little information to go on and that there is little they can do at this point to prevent the weapons and gear from falling into the wrong hands.
“We have to assume it’s completely compromised and gone,” said a legislative aide on Capitol Hill, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. . .
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Time to stop all our monies from the 50 states from getting any closer than 100 miles of D.C.
It will be returned one round at a time.
That is what you get when you arm weak governments.
Ha! That was the plan!
Barry loves it when a plan comes together. He has a knack for arming our enemies. During the nuke negotiations, has he asked Iran for our top secret drone back?
Yet another obama gift of our money to his islamobazi friends.
This was nothing but another brazen, criminal
transfer of arms to al Qaeda, overseen by
the White Mosque and everyone in the Pentagon
that protected/protects Hasan.
The inmates are running the asylum!
Wow, whutta great deal.
If you’re a sinister Sunni Muslim government you can get the U.S. federal government to give you hundreds of millions of dollars in firearms and ammo that....they refuse to allow the populace of the United States own or possess.
You know. The people who pay the bills.
Great deal! Maybe I need to rope off a few hundred miles of desert and I can get one of those F-16s I always wanted. Fer free!
fast and super Furious in the Middle East.
Just trust your government with money and guns, they said.
But we cannot re-import loaned M1 Garands.
May (just not yet) lose access to M855s.
Can’t find any 22LR.
Lakes are filling up.
Hmmm. Does Yemen have any significant bodies of water?
Relax guys, all the stuff is at my house. : )
Buy OA stock. They make most of this stuff.
“Can’t find any 22LR.”
It’s all in my brother’s house.
And right now the NSA is passing the word along to the ATF...
Funny how this seems to happen about every other week. One might wonder if it was intentional.
well technically I never signed for it.
Just might, have to look into it.
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