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...Miracle! U.S. Soldiers at Iraqi Detention Facility Discover Mashed-Up Pages from the Koran Make Wrinkles Disappear...
...have been tainted by--in addition to bribes and kickbacks--rigged bids, product substitution or double billing. The latest wrinkle is the apparent disappearance of 190,000 weapons--110,000 AK-47s and 80,000 pistols--that the U.S. bought and shipped to Iraq for use by the fledgling Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005. They vanished while General David Petraeus--now commanding all U.S. forces in Iraq--was in charge of rebuilding the Iraqi army. (He has not been implicated in any wrongdoing.) Officials say it's tough to track tens of thousands of weapons in the midst...
...also creating a senior Army panel to examine what systemic problems may be contributing to the plunder. No evidence has yet surfaced that the missing arms or ammo ended up in the hands of the various militias and insurgent groups that have been battling U.S. forces and their Iraqi allies. But the lack of accountability comes just as some of those Iraqis--and police forces in the U.S.--are complaining about lacking sufficient weapons and ammunition to do their jobs...
...spokesman, known only as Abu Hala, said the Ba'ath leadership under Saddam's deputy, Izzat al-Douri, were "more than willing to work with Allawi, because we see him as a nationalist and Iraqi patriot, and not a sectarian figure." He said the party didn't agree with all of Allawi's policies when he headed a transitional Iraqi government in 2004, but "we have no doubt that he would represent the interests of Iraq, not of Shi'ites or Sunnis or any other group...
...power vacuum in Iraq that Iran and other nations would be glad to fill. The Iranian strategy of playing both sides may not be tenable in the long-term, but for now it gives Iran influence in southern Iraq that must be the envy of both the Americans and Iraqi politicians in Baghdad...