Pentagon admits lags in delivering gear to Iraq

**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

This sounds pretty serious.

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WASHINGTON - The U.S. and its allies have delivered a little more than a third of the equipment in the pipeline for the Iraqi Army and less than half of what is destined for the Iraqi police, the Pentagon said Thursday, underscoring lags that Baghdad officials have complained about in recent days.

According to data provided by the Pentagon, more than $6.5 billion worth of vehicles, weapons, ammunition and other equipment has been given or promised to date to the Iraqi security forces by the U.S. and its coalition partners.

The Pentagon said that just 14.5 million of the nearly 40 million items ordered by the Ministry of Defense for the Iraqi Army have been delivered. And 22.7 million items have been delivered to the Ministry of Interior for the police, out of 48.1 million ordered.
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Of those totals, the ammunition ordered but not delivered yet to the Iraqi Army is in Iraq at a depot and has not yet been issued to individual military units.

Iraq’s ambassador to Washington, Samir Sumaida’ie, complained this week that basic requests for armored personnel carriers and rifles have been unmet, either because the sales are blocked in Washington or mired in bureaucracy.

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**CHUQ** · Agitator Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 3

I understand that the US troops are almost as unfortunate as the Iraqi troops. There is seldom any good news coming out of Iraq, but yet it continues and Americans and others die regularly. The situation is beyond bad, now it is bordering on pathetic.

**Tumbleweed** · Admin Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts votes: 4

I don't look for a quick fix. This is just another aspect of the war where red tape holds the whole pipeline of supplies up.