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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 09:17 PM Feb 2015

Pentagon loses track of weaponry sent to Yemen in recent years

Source: Guardian

Chaos in Yemen has left the US military unable to monitor the vast arsenal it has spent years providing to its Yemeni counterpart.

Yemen is now functionally leaderless after Houthi rebels took over the capital of Sana’a last month, prompting the resignation of President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi. The rebels are said to control the Yemeni military’s arms depots and bases, giving them effective control of US-provided and other heavy weaponry, including tanks and artillery.

The unrest has “limited our ability to conduct routine end-use monitoring checks and inspections we would normally perform”, a US defense official told the Guardian.

US military officials would not specify which military equipment it could no longer track, but in recent years the US has sold or leased equipment including helicopters, night-vision gear, surveillance equipment, military radios and transport aircraft to Yemen.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/03/pentagon-loses-track-weapons-yemen

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Pentagon loses track of weaponry sent to Yemen in recent years (Original Post) jakeXT Feb 2015 OP
what a clusterfuck…. dhill926 Feb 2015 #1
and yet, NSA and Homeland Security manage to track all our calls and emails and surfing, etc. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2015 #10
so let's send some more to syria and ukraine. yeah that;s the ticket! KG Feb 2015 #2
Exactly! what could possibly go wrong? Nobel_Twaddle_III Feb 2015 #11
Oh, that's a good one! Comrade Grumpy Feb 2015 #3
Let's see now.... George II Feb 2015 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author snappyturtle Feb 2015 #5
The Pentagon seems to have a great deal of trouble keep track of our tax dollars. snappyturtle Feb 2015 #5
Next thing you know Man from Pickens Feb 2015 #7
It is a win for the MIC daleo Feb 2015 #8
The US is in the business of destabilization and corruption Ramses Feb 2015 #9
What we should have done was Off-Shore the NSA to Yemen. They could monitor Al-Qaeda 1st hand. Ford_Prefect Feb 2015 #12
Win-win for the MIC. Scuba Feb 2015 #13

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
10. and yet, NSA and Homeland Security manage to track all our calls and emails and surfing, etc.
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 10:39 PM
Feb 2015

Maybe the Pentagon ought to put GPS stickers somewhere in those weapons?

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
3. Oh, that's a good one!
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 09:47 PM
Feb 2015

Sometimes I don't get the rationality of perpetually getting involved in nasty, complex conflicts that we don't understand.

And then making them worse and more lethal.

And then whining when the blow-back bites us in the ass.

And then using that as an excuse to do it all again.

George II

(67,782 posts)
4. Let's see now....
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 09:49 PM
Feb 2015

....rebels "are said to control the Yemeni military's arms depots and bases", the unrest has "limited our ability to conduct routine end-use monitoring" an unnamed US defense official told the Guardian, "US officials would not specify which military equipment it could no longer track", etc., etc.

So, basically what the Guardian is saying is that they really don't know shit-all about what they're reporting, but they're reporting on it anyway.

Not only that, but the Guardian headline is misleading if not downright false. NOWHERE in that "article" has it been shown that the Pentagon has "lost track" of weapons.

Response to jakeXT (Original post)

snappyturtle

(14,656 posts)
5. The Pentagon seems to have a great deal of trouble keep track of our tax dollars.
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 09:50 PM
Feb 2015

Remember this: (It's a grainy video of a CBS report.)

daleo

(21,317 posts)
8. It is a win for the MIC
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 10:14 PM
Feb 2015

These weapons can now be used in a war. Taxpayers can now pay for new weapons to fight these weapons. Plus, all those weapons can now be used up, necessitating even more weapons all around.

 

Ramses

(721 posts)
9. The US is in the business of destabilization and corruption
Tue Feb 3, 2015, 10:20 PM
Feb 2015

That this is not front page news here shows how broken and violent our government is and the psychopaths that run it.

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