Interesting article, even if I don't consider this lad was much of a criminal for what they say he is for. BTW, it has been said "we" are doing worse Afghan, then Iraqi. Worth reading in whole. - Goat
US gave $300 million Arms Contract to 22 yr old criminal http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/28/afghanistan.usa The Pentagon entrusted a 22-year-old previously arrested for domestic violence and having a forged driving licence to be the main supplier of ammunition to Afghan forces at the height of the battle against the Taliban, it was reported yesterday. ... The report on AEY was the latest instance of private firms securing lucrative defence contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan under the Bush administration's policy of privatising growing aspects of the military (meaning less accountability, they are using the same method that the cia and other "black" groups have used for years. It makes it much harder to account for all the funds. It also keeps contracts from being filled here putting our industry back on line. This is just one example of many of handing over the keys to these people, while the economy here goes down the tube, directly because of this massive spending, we see nothing out of but the debt to be paid back to the bankers. A debt that makes us all slaves, even if it is fraudulent, they will expect it repaid, and we have no way to pay it all back, except us and everything we own, down through posterity, unless we as people start to get it, and kick the "habit". Goat). "Operations like this pop up like mushrooms after the rain," said Milton Bearden, a former CIA official who in the 1980s was in charge of arming Afghan rebel groups (read Taliban or Alciada, same ones that we are using now if they defect to the security forces said to be fighting them above. It ins't about fighting terroist, it is about securing resources so THEY can make lots of money, while we pay the bill, in blood and money. Goat) fighting the former Soviet Union. "For the most part the US or coalition forces will stick with the Warsaw Pact weapons and munitions systems that were already being used by the Afghans or the Iraqis. There becomes an insatiable demand for certain munitions. Suppliers go all over the world sweeping out warehouses and you end up with boxes of junk and unstable gear if you are not careful." (while drying up domestic supply. Goat) The army suspended AEY from future contracts during the course of the investigation - although it continues to fill existing orders. The New York Times said Diversoli was unaware of the action, although he was to be notified yesterday. ... AEY's contract was approved weeks later in January 2007, and Diversoli began scouring the globe for suppliers. Diversoli turned to Albania, which had large weapons dumps. However, the New York Times reported that the firm ended up paying for Kalashnikov rounds that were so obsolete that the US and Nato funded programmes to see them safely destroyed. (7.62x39 of course. We would have probably been delighted to have had them. Don't want the peasants being effectively armed though, especially in this point of history, even though htey tell us we are under eminent threat, and they have proved they wont or can't protect us. Goat) AEY also purchased 9 million cartridges from a Czech citizen who had been linked to illegal arms trafficking to Congo (just the tip of the iceberg, these people don't care where stuff comes or how it is done, Dealing with terrorist, is for internal consumption only to keep the saps focused, happy and supportive. Goat). At first, the Pentagon defended its contractor. "AEY's proposal represented the best value to the government," the Army Sustainment Command wrote to the New York Times. Henry Waxman, the member of congress from California who heads the committee on government oversight, said yesterday he would conduct hearings into the contract next month. ...
