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Lost, stolen, sold? Tracking U.S. weapons in Afghanistan

By Te-Ping Chen

When the headlines first appeared in August 2007, they seemed ironic: Four years after the United States invaded Iraq in search of Saddam Hu

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"… d that the GAO is now focusing on U.S. weapons that are unaccounted for in Afghanistan, and a new report is slated for release in January.Preliminary findings on …"

"… ober by the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General, which flew a team to Afghanistan this past spring to suss out the extent of the problem.Their findings were …"

"… Iraq release.But the pending GAO report on weapons possibly gone astray in Afghanistan may be another story. According to a source at the DOD, the report will do …"

The U.S. military delves into cultural intelligence in Iran

By Nick Schwellenbach

PaperTrail has obtained an exclusive copy of the military’s field guide for cultural intelligence for possible military operations in Iran,

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"… ry Operations field guides exist for Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, China, Taiw …"

Billions for KBR

By Sarah Laskow

Whistleblower Charles M. Smith, who oversaw Pentagon contracts in Iraq, says he was forced out of his job in 2004 after refusing to pay defe

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"… tween 2004 and 2006, according to an analysis of contract data in Iraq and Afghanistan by the Center for Public Integrity.The Center’s analysis also reveals th …"

"… years — over $14 billion. KBR is the largest U.S. contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan, a fact first noted by the Center back in 2003, when KBR was still a subsi …"

"… KBR as one of three companies that will provide logistics support in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations for up to 10 more years. …"

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The Abu Ghraib supplementary documents

By Alexander Cohen

WASHINGTON, October 31, 2004 — Classified documents, obtained and posted by the Center for Public Integrity, reveal the extent to which prob

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"… ghly 6,000 pages of material related to the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. These released documents include most of the supplements to the original …"

The Abu Ghraib supplementary documents

By Alexander Cohen

WASHINGTON, October 8, 2004 — The military's mission at Abu Ghraib was inadequately planned almost from conception. It was subordinated to p

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"… rs.Currently, the U.S. government has detained thousands of individuals in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries suspected of ties to terrorism. Bush administrat …"

Early warning

By Alan Green

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2004 — One year before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, then-Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White informed a trio of top-level

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"… s awarded up to $8 billion in contracts for their work in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan. The Center report, Making a Killing: The Business of War, released in 200 …"

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The hot line from Virginia to Al Qaeda

LONDON, June 12, 2002 — The flaw in the U.S. communications system is a Pentagon network called the Global Broadcasting Service (GBS), a new

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"… munications experts say that after Sept. 11, operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan quickly occupied all available military satellite capacity, forcing the U. …"

Watching the terror trails

LONDON, June 12, 2002 — If you heard anything, you would think it was a mosquito hovering, hunting for fresh prey. But in the dark night ski

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"… uries to smuggle arms, drugs, even women destined for the sex business. In Afghanistan, some of the spy-in-the-sky observers can even be armed to fire missiles b …"

"… has enabled commanders to safely visit targets in dangerous areas of Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Serbia and now Kosovo, without putting pilots’ lives at risk. U …"

Special Report: Kuchma approved sale of weapons system to Iraq

By Phillip van Niekerk and André Verlöy

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2002 — Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma personally authorized the clandestine sale of $100-million worth of high-tech

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"… ilable to the U.S. for supplying troops and delivering humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. A U.S. State Department official said that, if the sale of arms and milit …"

Victor Bout denies involvement in arms traffic

By André Verlöy

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2002 — Alleged Russian arms trafficker Victor Bout denied that he had any links to the al Qaeda terrorist network of Os

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"… da terrorist network of Osama bin Laden and no role in shipping weapons to Afghanistan.In a statement issued last Friday in Moscow and in broadcast comments repe …"

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