Fark.com phrased the story this way:
"Hey Bob, where's that giant shipment of guns that just came in for the troops?" "Oh, no worries. I have the receipt here. Some guy named Al Kida signed for them"
BBC News told the same story with these words:
The US military has failed to keep track of thousands of weapons shipped to Afghanistan, leaving them vulnerable to being lost or stolen, a report says.
The report has been compiled by congressional auditors, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO).
It found that, in the four years up to June 2008, the US military failed to keep complete records on some 222,000 weapons entering the country.
The report will be discussed in the US House of Representatives on Thursday....
EDITORIAL NOTE: Ah, how history repeats itself! Although BBC isn't a friendly news source, this is not the first time such a snafu has been reported in Afghanistan. The same government that generously supplied both sides during the Vietnam War wants to take over the healthcare industry, banking industry, and domestic auto production. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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