More Missing Weapons & A Mysterious U.S. Military Officer's Suicide: American Weapons Recovered In Turkey Were Originally Destined For The Iraqi Government
(the post also contains links to the Russian Mafia's involvement in the missing AK-47 saga, and a potential connection between the Mafia, the Pentagon, AQ, and the Taliban.) "What puzzled Turkish police was the weapons' origin. Glocks are high-quality sidearms, but by last year they had practically become common street weapons in Turkey. More than 1,000 had been taken from criminals, guerrillas, terrorists and assassins all over the country, and authorities believed tens of thousands more had found their way onto the black market - but from where? The Austrian government repeatedly checked the serial numbers of the murder weapons. The manufacturer informed Ankara that the pistols were consigned originally to " 'US Mission Iraq' [formerly the Coalition Provisional Authority], address: Republican Presidential Compound, Ministry of the Interior, Baghdad, Iraq." But there were also signs of problems more serious than bad record-keeping. One of Petraeus's subordinates, Col. Theodore Westhusing, had taken leave from his position as a professor of ethics at West Point to serve a six-month tour as commander of the unit training counterterrorism and Special Operations Forces. By the spring of 2005, Westhusing had grown increasingly concerned about the corruption he thought he saw in the program. He was especially upset after receiving an anonymous letter on May 19, 2005, which claimed there was outright fraud by government contractors." ...and then he allegedy committed suicide. In full: http://leighm.net/wp/2007/08/28/missing_glocks/
