$1 Billion Stolen From Iraq’s Defense Ministry »

By John on Sep 21, 2005 in Politics, War | 0 Comments

The Iraq Defense Ministry is the victim of one of the largest thefts in history. One billion dollars meant to buy arms from Pakistan and Poland was siphoned off, resulting in overpayment for inferior equipment such as “armoured cars…so poorly made that even a bullet from an elderly AK-47 machine-gun could penetrate their armour.”

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