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Taliban may be in possession of missing US weapons in Afghanistan

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ANI Johannesburg

The records of thousands of weapons provided by the United States to Afghanistan are missing and may have ended up in the hands of militants, revealed a US audit report.

The report stated that inspections at supply depots have revealed that several arms and weapons are missing, News 24 reported.

The American military has supplied more than 747,000 AK-47 rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers and other weapons to Afghan forces worth about 626 million dollars since 2004.

According to the findings of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, both Washington and Kabul do not possess any record for tens of thousands of weapons, arms provided by the former in the last decade.

 

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First Published: Jul 29 2014 | 11:57 AM IST

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