Arms Sent by U.S. May Be Falling Into Taliban Hands

Comment: Falling = Being given. Anyone know of a better way to protract the "insurgency"?? Peak oil isn't going anywhere anytime soon, neither is the U.S. -- the Army will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for the long haul...until the wells run dry.

Insurgents in Afghanistan, fighting from some of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, have managed for years to maintain an intensive guerrilla war against materially superior American and Afghan forces.

Arms and ordnance collected from dead insurgents hint at one possible reason: Of 30 rifle magazines recently taken from insurgents’ corpses, at least 17 contained cartridges, or rounds, identical to ammunition the United States had provided to Afghan government forces, according to an examination of ammunition markings by The New York Times and interviews with American officers and arms dealers.


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