{"id":1425,"date":"2006-05-12T12:21:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2006-05-12T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T16:21:11","slug":"us-cannot-or-will-not-account-for-the-deliveries-of-arms-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"US “cannot or will not account for the deliveries” of arms to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excerpted from the executive summary<\/a> of Amnesty International’s new report, Dead on Time – arms transportation, brokering and the threat to human rights<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Bosnian surplus arms supposedly to Iraq<\/em> – Hundred of thousands of small arms and light weapons from the Bosnia and Herzegovina?s (BiH) war-time stockpiles together with tens of millions of rounds of ammunition were reportedly shipped – clandestinely and without public oversight – to Iraq by a chain of US, Israeli, UK, Swiss, Bulgarian, Croatian. Moldovan, Ukrainian and other private brokers and transport contractors under the auspices of the US Department of Defense between 31 July 2004 and 31 June 2005. One of the air cargo companies used had been named in April 2003 by the UN for violating the arms embargo on Liberia. While such deliveries to the Iraqi security forces at this time would pose a threat to human rights in Iraq, West European officials say that some of the weapons to Iraq “may have been siphoned off”. There has been massive corruption involving Iraqi government arms purchases and efforts to sell off surplus Iraqi arms. As yet there is no proof that the weapons flown out of BiH in August 2004 actually arrived in Iraq. The US and local authorities in Iraq and BiH, when questioned, cannot or will not account for the deliveries. This case is detailed in a whole chapter of the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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