Pathetic…… we have no idea where our arms end up. And who was in charge of all this? General Betrayus……the guy who’s going to tell us how wonderful the surge is working. Oy vey……..

A top Pentagon official is heading to Iraq to investigate claims that US arms supplied to Iraqi security forces have ended up in Turkey, which is fuming over cross-border attacks by Kurdish rebels.

The Defense Department’s inspector general Claude Kicklighter, a retired Army general, is due in Iraq next week with an 18-member assessment team to probe the allegations.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters Wednesday that he had no evidence to show that US’supplied arms had been used by Iraqi insurgents against US forces, or by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels against Turkish forces.

But he added: “If American-issued weapons have ended up in the hands of criminals in Turkey or terrorists in Turkey, that is not based upon the policy of this department or this government.”

Since January, Kicklighter’s office has been investigating allegations that US arms intended for the Iraqi police are ending up in the wrong hands.

Morrell said that Defense Secretary Robert Gates was “deeply troubled by the reports and the allegations.”

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