The only thing funny about this story is that Blackwater apparently signed for the guns using the fake name "Eric Cartman," the obnoxious little brat from South Park. Spencer Ackerman explains:
Employees of the CIA-connected private security corporation Blackwater diverted hundreds of weapons, including more than 500 AK-47 assault rifles, from a U.S. weapons bunker in Afghanistan intended to equip Afghan policemen, according to an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee. On at least one occasion, an individual claiming to work for the company evidently signed for a weapons shipment using the name of a "South Park" cartoon character. And Blackwater has yet to return hundreds of the guns to the military.
Sen. Carl Levin, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, plans hearings today on the matter. Ackerman will cover the hearing in a live blog for The Washington Independent.
Yesterday, Levin told Ackerman that Blackwater wasn't telling the truth about the weapons.
rest athttp://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/24/840119/-Hundreds-of-AK-47s-missing-after-weapons-taken-by-Blackwater-from-U.S.-and-Afghan-governments?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29
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