The U.S. military lost 12,000 Glock handguns that were intended for Iraqi police officers.
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The sources support that U.S.-issued Glock pistols meant for Iraqi security forces went unaccounted for, but the figures vary: the SIGIR report cited about 13,180 missing Glocks, which later rose to 80,000 per AOAV.
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… The army had a program; they were given Iraqi police officers military police training, so we gave them Glocks. They started selling the Glocks. They started selling the bullets, and army's like, "Yeah, we're not doing this." And then, not too long later, they came out with an article that they lost 12,000 Glocks. For sure, he still has 9,000 for sale, if you're interested, on Marketplace. It's totally legal. Yes, Joe's Facebook. No, YouTube, censor that. Was a joke. That's an obvious joke. There are no weapons for no, this is it. …
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Contradicts. The same AOAV account says the missing Glock figure later grew to 80,000 pistols, so the claimed 12,000 falls below the later estimate rather than matching it.[1]
Supports. CBS News reported that Austrian-made Glocks intended for Iraqi security forces and paid for by U.S. taxpayers had gone missing and reached insurgents, and that the U.S. contractor had lost track of a shipment.[2]
Supports. The Special Inspector General for Iraq reconstruction reported that 13,180 Glock pistols were missing, a figure close to the claimed 12,000.[1]
Context. The GAO found that about 190,000 AK-47s and pistols given to Iraqi security forces could not be accounted for, and the losses were attributed largely to record-keeping failures rather than a single lost batch.[3][4]
Context. The loss was attributed to contractor and bookkeeping failures in 2004–2007, not to the post's account of the Army selling the Glocks; none of the sources confirm the post's specific "article" or the claim of a single 12,000-Glock loss.[2][3]
Sources
4 sources: 1 not rated, 3 tier 2
- 1DoD Spending on Small Arms to Iraq Revealedaoav.org.uk · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 2Are Lost U.S. Weapons In Enemy Hands? - CBS Newscbsnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 3http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...washingtonpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 4Report: U.S. May Have Lost Weapons in Iraqnpr.org · tier 2 · cited for: context
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