Iraqi Government Officials Involved in Gun Trafficking

Italian authorities broke up a "huge black-market" in weapons involving Iraqi government officials. They arrested several individuals involved in a sting that would've sent 100,000 assault rifles into the blood bath in Iraq:

The Associated Press has learned that Iraqi government officials were involved in the deal, apparently without the knowledge of the U.S. Baghdad command - a departure from the usual pattern of U.S.-overseen arms purchases.

Why these officials resorted to "black" channels and where the weapons were headed is unclear.

Officially we don't know where these weapons ended up:

The purchase would merely have been the most spectacular example of how Iraq has become a magnet for arms traffickers and a place of vanishing weapons stockpiles and uncontrolled gun markets since the 2003 U.S. invasion and the onset of civil war.

Some guns the U.S. bought for Iraq's police and army are unaccounted for, possibly fallen into the hands of insurgents or sectarian militias.

Lot's of unanswered questions. We need to get to the bottom of this. It might turn out to be very embarassing for the Bushies