The Pentagon is using blacklisted arms smugglers to get guns from Bosnia to Iraq, where they suddenly disappear. These are the largest arms shipments from Bosnia since World War II, and the guns have just vanished en route to Iraq. Let's hope the WH press corps has more than a few questions for Snow Job about this on Tuesday:
US in secret gun deal: Small arms shipped from Bosnia to Iraq 'go missing' as Pentagon uses dealers
The Pentagon has secretly shipped tens of thousands of small arms from Bosnia to Iraq in the past two years, using a web of private companies, at least one of which is a noted arms smuggler blacklisted by Washington and the UN.
According to a report by Amnesty International, which investigated the sales, the US government arranged for the delivery of at least 200,000 Kalashnikov machine guns from Bosnia to Iraq in 2004-05. But though the weaponry was said to be for arming the fledgling Iraqi military, there is no evidence of the guns reaching their recipient [...]
Senior western officials in the Balkans fear that some of the guns may have fallen into the wrong hands.
A Nato official described the trade as the largest arms shipments from Bosnia since the second world war. (Guardian)
This story is huge. And until the administration makes it clear what happened to the weapons, we cannot allow the press to let the White House sweep 200,000 guns under the carpet.