Firm Sent Cold War Ammo to Afghanistan

[unhappycamper]

Firm Sent Cold War Ammo to Afghanistan

March 27, 2008
Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Washington (dpa) - The Army has suspended a huge contract with a munitions dealer who was supplying the Afghanistan government with decades-old ammunition from the old communist bloc and gun cartridges manufactured in China, the New York Times reported March 27 in a lengthy investigative report.

The company, AEY Inc, was run by a 22-year-old man out of an anonymous office in Miami Beach, Fla., and had a vice president who was a masseur, the newspaper reported.

An estimated 300-million-dollar contract was suspended after the Times inquired repeatedly about it with the army, the paper reported.

Some of the middlemen and a shell company that AEY worked with were found on a federal list of suspected illegal arms traffickers.

Afghan security forces are armed mostly with guns designed in the former Soviet Union.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/firm-sent-cold-war-ammo-to-afghanistan.html?col=1186032310810&wh=wh

[MikeNearMcChord]

1. Why aren't these BASTARDS, PICKING UP SOAP IN A FEDERAL PEN??

Jesus, Democrats in congress, Harry Truman went after these guys in WWII and became a VP then President, but more than that, a hero. Does anybody in DC give a FLYING F**K!?!?!?