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 ...
Our government does so well managing the Mid East, don’t they?
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
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
Yeas, we can never find these items. It’as not like they have GPS on any of them.
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.
it’s what the DiC does best
let’s take it out of the pension funds of everyone who signed off on these transfers
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