Legal U.S. gun sales to Mexico arming cartels

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Legal U.S. gun sales to Mexico arming cartels
December 6, 2011
Sharyl Attkisson


(CBS News) Selling weapons to Mexico - where cartel violence is out of control - is controversial because so many guns fall into the wrong hands due to incompetence and corruption. The Mexican military recently reported nearly 9,000 police weapons "missing."
Legal U.S. gun sales to Mexico arming cartels - CBS News

 

[LilOlLady]

International aid to combatants in the Iran–Iraq War

International aid to combatants in the Iran


US weapons sales to Iraq: Still a good idea as violence escalates?
By Anna Mulrine
December 29, 2011

The 150 uniformed US troops still in Iraq are there to facilitate weapons sales and train Iraqi forces to use the armaments. But as violence rises in Iraq since the US military pullout, some analysts see greater risks that US-supplied weapons may be misused.
US weapons sales to Iraq: Still a good idea as violence escalates? - CSMonitor.com

Arms sell to Iraq will eventually be used against us.

 

[waltky]

MEXICO UNDER SIEGE...

Mexico Sought To Withhold Drug War Death Statistics
January 11, 2012, Official records show both the administration and the attorney general's office late last year refused formal requests for updated statistics. Under pressure, partial figures for 2011 have been released.

Six months before a presidential election that his party is widely expected to lose, President Felipe Calderon is on the defensive about the government's blood-soaked drug war, with new revelations that it sought to conceal death toll statistics from the public. By unofficial count, at least 50,000 people are believed to have been killed since Calderon deployed the military in the first days of his presidency in December 2006. A year ago, the government released an official death toll up to that point — 34,612 — and pledged to periodically update a database and make it public. But official documents show that the offices of both the president and the attorney general late last year refused formal requests for updated statistics filed under the Mexican equivalent of the Freedom of Information Act.

After the reports first surfaced on the Mexican news website Animal Politico, a Calderon administration official told The Times that the government wanted to verify the numbers before releasing them. "It is not a lack of transparency on our part," the official said. Under pressure, the attorney general's office Wednesday released a partial death toll for 2011. As of Oct. 1, it reported, 12,903 people had been killed in incidents tied to "rivalry among criminal organizations." Until now, without official data, the public had to rely on tallies kept by Mexican newspapers. The partial official numbers show a notably higher death toll than the newspapers had calculated and suggest that the overall count since Calderon came to office will easily surpass 50,000.

As the Calderon administration claims a measure of success in the drug war, a burgeoning peace movement, academics and opposition politicians keen to take power have all asserted that the military offensive was flawed from the start and has caused violence to soar. Although the government maintains that its reluctance to divulge the numbers was simply a matter of verification, some Mexicans suspect other motives. For one, the government may have been loath to draw attention to the high death toll in the lead-up to an election that will choose Calderon's successor. His conservative National Action Party is expected to take a drubbing, in part over his handling of the violence.

The government also saw damage to its credibility in 2010 when different agencies released contradictory statistics. "The lesson we got from releasing figures is that no one believed them," said the official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter and did so on condition of anonymity. The failure to disclose the statistics, meanwhile, had the effect of fueling greater doubt and suspicion. "It can create the perception that the number of murdered is alarmingly higher than what is thought," said Ciro Gomez Leyva, a journalist and radio host. "And that instead of releasing solid and reliable reports, [the government] is opting to hide cadavers." The majority of the dead are traffickers and their henchmen, but civilians, human rights defenders, migrants and children are increasingly being slain.

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Four words: Operation Fast and Furious

 

[Mad Scientist]

47,500 deaths in Mexico since 2006 due to "The War on Drugs":
BBC News - Mexico drug war deaths over five years now total 47,515

 

[merrill]

Legal U.S. gun sales to Mexico arming cartels
December 6, 2011
Sharyl Attkisson


(CBS News) Selling weapons to Mexico - where cartel violence is out of control - is controversial because so many guns fall into the wrong hands due to incompetence and corruption. The Mexican military recently reported nearly 9,000 police weapons "missing."
Legal U.S. gun sales to Mexico arming cartels - CBS News

This has been a major problem since the GW Bush admin. Big money in black market weapons system.

 

[merrill]

International aid to combatants in the Iran–Iraq War

International aid to combatants in the Iran


US weapons sales to Iraq: Still a good idea as violence escalates?
By Anna Mulrine
December 29, 2011

The 150 uniformed US troops still in Iraq are there to facilitate weapons sales and train Iraqi forces to use the armaments. But as violence rises in Iraq since the US military pullout, some analysts see greater risks that US-supplied weapons may be misused.
US weapons sales to Iraq: Still a good idea as violence escalates? - CSMonitor.com

Arms sell to Iraq will eventually be used against us.

* 190000 US weapons reported missing in Iraq | World news ...
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Aug 6, 2007 – More than 190000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols distributed to Iraqi forces by the US are missing, feared fallen into the hands of insurgents, ...

* BBC NEWS | Middle East | US 'loses track' of Iraq weapons
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Aug 6, 2007 – The Pentagon has lost track of 190000 AK-47s and pistols given to Iraqi ... Pentagon cannot track about 30% of the weapons distributed in Iraq ...

* Report: Pentagon lost almost 200000 weapons in Iraq - CNN
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Aug 6, 2007 – Nearly 200000 U.S.-supplied rifles and pistols meant for Iraqi security forces are unaccounted for in Iraq, according to a report to Congress.

* 190000 U.S.-Funded Weapons Missing in Iraq : NPR
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Aug 6, 2007 – At least 110000 AK-47 rifles and 80000 pistols sent to help Iraqi security forces fight insurgents in Iraq are missing, according to a report from ...

* Thousands of U.S. weapons in Iraq missing - USATODAY.com
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Oct 29, 2006 – Nearly one of every 25 weapons the military bought for Iraqi security forces is missing, a government audit said Sunday. Many others cannot be ...

 

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Legal U.S. gun sales to Mexico arming cartels
December 6, 2011
Sharyl Attkisson


(CBS News) Selling weapons to Mexico - where cartel violence is out of control - is controversial because so many guns fall into the wrong hands due to incompetence and corruption. The Mexican military recently reported nearly 9,000 police weapons "missing."
Legal U.S. gun sales to Mexico arming cartels - CBS News

Americans are doing it legally so no any fear of it.