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US "Loses" $500 Million In Weapons Given To Yemen, Now In Al-Qaeda Hands
Zerohedge ^ | 3/23/15 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 03/23/2015 7:55:58 PM PDT by Kartographer

And, naturally, after noting that "the employees said that more than 20 vehicles were taken by the fighters after the Americans departed from Sanaa's airport" we asked how long until we have a "tabulation of losses to US taxpayers, just like the great Islamic State 'robbery' of hundreds of millions in US military equipment in Iraq?" That, of course, was another epic US intervention success story.

Anyway, thanks to WaPo we have an answer: according to Jeff Bezos' recent media acquisition, "the Pentagon is unable to account for more than $500 million in U.S. military aid given to Yemen."

Obviously, "can't account for" means "has lost." But while the US does not know where nearly half a billion in weapons can be found, it is more than informed who is the current owner: there are "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."

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; iranyemen; militaryaid; yemen; yemenfailedstate
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To: Kartographer

Our government does so well managing the Mid East, don’t they?


21 posted on 03/23/2015 9:31:02 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Kartographer

Link goes to the graphic, but not the article.

Link to the article - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-23/us-loses-500-million-weapons-given-yemen-now-al-qaeda-hands


22 posted on 03/23/2015 9:46:57 PM PDT by Perseverando (In Washington it's common knowledge that Barack Hussein Obama is ineligible to be POTUS.)
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To: Kartographer
"the Pentagon is unable to account for more than $500 million in U.S. military aid given to Yemen."

I bet it was way more than $500 million. Probably more like $2 billion. I'm just speculating that there is a lot more they're not talking about and don't want us to know.

This is just part of the Alqaeda/ISIS Obama lend/lease military support program. /sarc

23 posted on 03/23/2015 9:56:04 PM PDT by Perseverando (In Washington it's common knowledge that Barack Hussein Obama is ineligible to be POTUS.)
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To: Kartographer

Yeas, we can never find these items. It’as not like they have GPS on any of them.


24 posted on 03/24/2015 4:28:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: Lazamataz

Oh, yeah. And then there is the matter of the “missing” $6,000,000,000.00 during hitlery’s tenure as SOS. Yeah...”missing”. What a crock.


25 posted on 03/24/2015 5:39:02 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: null and void

it’s what the DiC does best


26 posted on 03/24/2015 8:33:47 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Kartographer

let’s take it out of the pension funds of everyone who signed off on these transfers


27 posted on 04/01/2015 7:48:11 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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