Question on a slow morning
Not too much going on this morning, so I thought I'd pose a question that's been bouncing around my head for the last few months.
How much of the tens of billions of dollars and billions in missing and unlocatable equipment in Iraq has been diverted to other covert efforts in other countries?
That huge pot of untraceable and unaudited cash and weapons must be irresistable to some of the intelligence agencies.
How much of the tens of billions of dollars and billions in missing and unlocatable equipment in Iraq has been diverted to other covert efforts in other countries?
That huge pot of untraceable and unaudited cash and weapons must be irresistable to some of the intelligence agencies.
posted by mikevotes at
7:47 AM
7 Comments:
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Give or take.
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Praguetwin, at 12:24 PM
Kurdistan might be a good place to look.
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Anonymous, at 12:27 PM
...or even Iran, maybe?
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-epm, at 1:09 PM
PragueTwin, funny.
Billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of known missing weapons.
I'd look at the Baluchs and some of the Kurds who are antagonizing Iran. I'd look at some of the radical Sunni groups operating in Lebanon against Hezbullah, and in some of the Islamic former Russian states. Sections around the Caspian. Probably splattered across northern Africa.
You figure there must be some going into paramilitaries in the Phillipines, and probably to some groups in Indonesia.
Then there's probably the straight up bribes being paid into Islamic groups and individuals all around the world.
It's really just a question of how much is being siphoned into all this, and just how dirty the recipients are.
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mikevotes, at 1:34 PM
enter stage right...mafia.
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Anonymous, at 6:35 PM
To the extent that the money and weapons went to places that the administration WANTED it to go, those are all likely spots... Kurdistan especially, I'd think. (I remember way back when things were just starting to go bad for the occupation, Seymour Hersh did a piece on how a pro-western Kurdistan was Plan B if Iraq failed).
But my fear is that most of it went where the Bushies didn't want it to go. They handed it over to the "legitimate government of Iraq" with very little oversight (I think it was Bremer who testified about this before Congress), and depending on the sectarian affiliation of the ministries that got it, much of it probably went to Sunni insurgents or Shiite militias. I.e., the guys who are killing Americans.
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Anonymous, at 7:03 PM
Yeah.
I'm very sure large amounts of the stuff disappeared into corrupt pockets and also into the coffers of people we consider enemies. I didn't even mention it because I take it so for granted.
The only complication on Kurdistan in the Turkish pressure. The anti-Turk PKK and the anti-Iranian Kurd group are nominally separate, though.
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mikevotes, at 9:06 PM
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