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 Sanaa last month, prompting the resignation of President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi. The rebels are said to control the Yemeni militarys 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
dhill926
(16,355 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Maybe the Pentagon ought to put GPS stickers somewhere in those weapons?
KG
(28,752 posts)Nobel_Twaddle_III
(323 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)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)....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.
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snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)Remember this: (It's a grainy video of a CBS report.)
Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)they'll find gambling in the establishment
daleo
(21,317 posts)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)That this is not front page news here shows how broken and violent our government is and the psychopaths that run it.