Ali Baba

Below are excerpt from The New York Times article Allegations Lead Army to Review Arms Policy April 27, 2008 with my emphasis added.

If it was America’s money then America is showing us how “Freedom and Democracy” works!!!. If it is Iraqi or Afghani money then they should compensate us for throwing our money down the drain.!!!

Afghanistan and Iraq with foreign arms, prompted by an allegation of fraud and questions about the competence of the main private supplier of ammunition to Afghanistan.>

shipping aged Chinese rifle cartridges and claiming they were Hungarian.>

<> His father, Michael, incorporated the company in 1999. In 2004, AEY listed Efraim Diveroli as an officer.>

January 2007, the company was awarded a contract, potentially worth $298 million, that made it the primary munitions supplier for Afghan security forces in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.>

The New York Times, first reported last month, found that the company had shipped to Afghanistan tens of millions of decades-old Chinese cartridges that had been repackaged in flimsy cardboard. >

NATO and the State Department have determined to be outdated and obsolete, and have spent millions of dollars to have destroyed.>

. He later conducted business with a shell company in Cyprus and two international arms dealers on the federal watch list. He was also recorded in a phone conversation that suggested corruption in arms purchases in Albania.>

Chinese rounds from Albanian depots and were made as long ago as 1960.>