A couple days ago we ridiculed the idea that the US could monitor the weapons that it intends to give to current/future Palestinian terrorists. We snarked that the US can't even keep track of weapons in countries that it's actually occupying:
The US can't keep its F-14 parts from getting sold to Iran. Forgive us a little bit of skepticism about their ability to keep three sets of untraceable body armor from being handed over a back fence at 1am in Ramallah.
As if you needed it, today brings more evidence of staggering US incompetence when it comes to tracking and verifying weapons:
Widespread corruption has robbed the Iraqi Armed Forces of arms, money and troops, a Times investigation has discovered. Army numbers are swelled with “ghost soldiers” who appear on rosters but do not exist. A brigade commander was removed this month for selling weapons and fuel on the black market and officials in the Ministry of Defence support terrorism, according to one lieutenant-colonel... Then there are the “ghost soldiers”. Colonel Sabih knows that someone is receiving the fictitious troops’ salaries, but can do nothing about it. “Basically, the Ministry of Defence is weak. These people who work in MoD, some of them support terrorism. This doesn’t mean only to kill innocent people . . . they work for their personal benefit,” he said. “One hundred per cent, the problem in the MoD is corruption.” US Marine officers in Fallujah were even more blunt in describing how dirty practices were hindering the Iraqi Army. They succeeded in ousting Fallujah’s brigade commander, General Khalid Juad Khadim, who had enjoyed political protection inside the ministry.
It's cool though. That won't happen in Palestinian controlled areas, because there's no internal corruption in the Palestinian security forces. Or in Hamas. Or anywhere in the Palestinian territories. Quite the opposite, the Palestinians all gentle lambs, yearning and ready for their own state. So let's give them some weapons, yeah? Who's with us?
Previously: Palestinian Civil Society Watch - Just Wait Till They Try to Open a DMV!, Palestinian Civil Society Watch I - Is Attacking You Own Ministers Good or Bad?, Palestinian Civil Society Watch - Terrorists Very Popular
