Audit: U.S. military has lost track of weapons in Iraq

NO SERIAL NUMBERS RECORDED FOR ARMS PROVIDED TO IRAQIS

James Glanz, New York Times

The U.S. military has not properly tracked hundreds of thousands of weapons intended for Iraqi security forces and has failed to provide spare parts, maintenance personnel or even repair manuals for most of the weapons given to the Iraqis, a federal report released Sunday has concluded. The report was undertaken at the request of Sen. John Warner, R-Va., who is the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and who recently provided an assessment far darker than the Bush administration's on the situation in Iraq...

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