Pentagon Falsifying Paperwork For Weapons Transfers To Syrian Rebels

[Origanalist]

Bombshell Report Catches Pentagon Falsifying Paperwork For Weapons Transfers To Syrian Rebels

by Tyler Durden
Sep 13, 2017

A new bombshell joint report issued by two international weapons monitoring groups Tuesday confirms that the Pentagon continues to ship record breaking amounts of weaponry into Syria and that the Department of Defense is scrubbing its own paper trail. On Tuesday the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) produced conclusive evidence that not only is the Pentagon currently involved in shipping up to $2.2 billion worth of weapons from a shady network of private dealers to allied partners in Syria - mostly old Soviet weaponry - but is actually manipulating paperwork such as end-user certificates, presumably in order to hide US involvement.

The OCCRP and BIRN published internal US defense procurement files after an extensive investigation which found that the Pentagon is running a massive weapons trafficking pipeline which originates in the Balkans and Caucuses, and ends in Syria and Iraq. The program is ostensibly part of the US train, equip, and assist campaign for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF, a coalition of YPG/J and Arab FSA groups operating primarily in Syria's east). The arms transfers are massive and the program looks to continue for years. According to Foreign Policy's (FP) coverage of the report:

The Department of Defense has budgeted $584 million specifically for this Syrian operation for the financial years 2017 and 2018, and has earmarked another $900 million of spending on Soviet-style munitions between now and 2022. The total, $2.2 billion, likely understates the flow of weapons to Syrian rebels in the coming years.

But perhaps more shocking is the following admission that Pentagon suppliers have links with known criminal networks, also from FP:

According to the report, many of the weapons suppliers — primarily in Eastern Europe but also in the former Soviet republics, including Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Ukraine — have both links to organized crime throughout Eastern Europe and spotty business records.

The sheer amount of material necessary for the Pentagon program — one ammunition factory announced it planned to hire 1,000 new employees in 2016 to help cope with the demand — has reportedly stretched suppliers to the limit, forcing the Defense Department to relax standards on the materials it’s willing to accept.

It is likely that the organized crime association is the reason why the Pentagon has sought to alter its records. In addition, the sheer volume of weaponry continuing to ship to the Syrian battlefield and other parts of the Middle East means inevitable proliferation among unsavory terror groups - a phenomenon which has already been exhaustively documented in connection with the now reportedly closed CIA program to topple the Syrian government. The associations and alliances among some of the Arab former FSA groups the DoD continues to support in the north and east remains fluid, which means means US-supplied weapons will continue to pass among groups with no accountability for where they end up.

One of the authors of the OCCRP/BIRN report, Ivan Angelovski, told Foreign Policy that, “The Pentagon is removing any evidence in their procurement records that weapons are actually going to the Syrian opposition." The report is based on internal US government memos which reveal that weapons shipment destination locations have been scrubbed from original documents.

Falsified and altered Pentagon procurement documents ;



Is an EUC (End User Certificate) still an EUC if it doesn't include an end user?



Lol, "Boy Scout Blvd'

continued...http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...rs-linked-orga

[shakey1]

Corruption made easy.

[jllundqu]

Wait... you mean they are illegally equipping Islamic terrorists to use as proxies for regime change in Syria against Assad? I'm shocked

[Brian4Liberty]

Raise the debt ceiling!

[bunklocoempire]

I'll be sure to share this with my local TSA agent when I need to fly 80 miles to another county.

[Origanalist]

[goldenequity]

While Donald Trump garnered praise from many anti-imperialist activists and researchers
after his public announcement that he was ending the CIA’s program of arming terrorists in Syria,
it appears much of that praise will be short-lived.

The U.S. government has simply shifted the focus of arming terrorists from one agency to another.
Trump never ended the Pentagon program.





The fact that the Pentagon is
willing to use European organized crime groups
to procure weapons to ship to al-Qaeda terrorists
in an ongoing regime change operation,
which is sold to the American public as a humanitarian endeavor,

should wake every American up to the farce that is ‘spreading democracy.’

Pentagon Busted Working with Organized Crime to Funnel Billions in Weapons to Terrorists
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/org...on-terrorists/

New Documents Show Pentagon Is Shipping Billions Worth Of Weapons To Terrorists In Syria, Trying To Cover Its Tracks
https://www.activistpost.com/2017/09...ts-tracks.html

[specsaregood]

While Donald Trump garnered praise from many anti-imperialist activists and researchers
after his public announcement that he was ending the CIA’s program of arming terrorists in Syria,
it appears much of that praise will be short-lived.

The U.S. government has simply shifted the focus of arming terrorists from one agency to another.
Trump never ended the Pentagon program.





The fact that the Pentagon is
willing to use European organized crime groups
to procure weapons to ship to al-Qaeda terrorists
in an ongoing regime change operation,
which is sold to the American public as a humanitarian endeavor,

should wake every American up to the farce that is ‘spreading democracy.’

Pentagon Busted Working with Organized Crime to Funnel Billions in Weapons to Terrorists
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/org...on-terrorists/

New Documents Show Pentagon Is Shipping Billions Worth Of Weapons To Terrorists In Syria, Trying To Cover Its Tracks
https://www.activistpost.com/2017/09...ts-tracks.html

And to think that this all got started all just because when assad and his wife went out to dinner with John Kerry and his wife, Assad got up and went to the restroom when the bill came, sticking Kerry with the tab.

[Swordsmyth]

Germany Launches Probe After Pentagon's Syrian Arms Smuggling Story Goes Viral

The German government has opened an probe into an illegal Pentagon arms trafficking operation after a bombshell investigative report on the secret program went viral this week.
On Wednesday we reported on the continuing Pentagon arms pipeline to Syria which runs through Europe, the Balkans, and Caucuses, and which is based on a shady network of private contractors and altered US government paperwork. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) produced conclusive evidence and internal memos proving that not only is the Pentagon currently involved in shipping up to $2.2 billion worth of (mostly old Soviet) weapons from private dealers to US-backed Syrian militants, but is actually manipulating paperwork such as end-user certificates in order to conceal the ultimate destinations of the weaponry (in this case Syria).
The new investigation also confirms Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva's prior findings, which exposed the role of Azerbaijan-operated Silk Way Airlines in the weapons airlifts. Though independent journalists and regional monitoring groups have been digging into the Pentagon arms shipments throughout the summer, mainstream European and American press were reluctant to cover the story, even as a steady flow of incontrovertible proof emerged online in the form of documents, photos, and videos of mysterious cargo planes being loaded with weapons. Over the past two weeks WikiLeaks has also highlighted the emerging details of a developing story which saw at least one journalist come under scrutiny by European security officials.

Public records reveal that the Pentagon is shipping billions of dollars of arms to Syrian insurgents https://t.co/8idPs57GnI pic.twitter.com/2qQDLzymZk
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) September 13, 2017

After a week of the story picking up momentum, it appears we may finally be seeing the beginnings of public and governmental investigations forming as European governments perhaps reluctantly take stock of Pentagon arms pipelines in their territories now coming under public attention and outrage. As Stripes reports, Germany announced a new legal inquiry early Friday:

The German prosecutor’s office in Kaiserslautern said Friday it is looking into a report that the Pentagon used Ramstein Air Base to transport weapons covertly to rebel fighters in Syria — an allegation, that if true, might have broken German law.

...The weapons transfer through Ramstein would have required permission from the German government, the report stated.

Officials with Germany’s Economic Affairs Ministry told Stars and Stripes that the ministry did not give the U.S. military permission to transport weapons to Syria through the country. They denied having any knowledge of such activities.

Part of the OCCRP and BIRN investigation spotlighted Ramstein as one of the many key transport hubs used in the Syria weapons trafficking program. The arms monitoring groups jointly published a side report on the Pentagon's questionable activities at the German US installation as part of its broader findings on Tuesday.
That report included a newly unearthed internal email authored by the Pentagon’s US Special Operations Command Mission (SOCOM) instructing its partnering contractors to, as BIRN summarizes, "stop trucking Soviet-style weapons from the Balkans through Germany" because "officials in Berlin became concerned about the deliveries."
The closing line of the SOCOM email explicitly acknowledges that, "Germany has become very sensitive to these requests."

SOCOM email published by BIRN's Balkan Insight on Tuesday: "Germany has become very sensitive to these requests."
BIRN questioned the German government over the findings this week and immediately caught German officials lying about their knowledge of the Pentagon weapons transfers.

More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...ory-goes-viral


As if they weren't in on it too

[Origanalist]

Germany Launches Probe After Pentagon's Syrian Arms Smuggling Story Goes Viral

The German government has opened an probe into an illegal Pentagon arms trafficking operation after a bombshell investigative report on the secret program went viral this week.
On Wednesday we reported on the continuing Pentagon arms pipeline to Syria which runs through Europe, the Balkans, and Caucuses, and which is based on a shady network of private contractors and altered US government paperwork. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) produced conclusive evidence and internal memos proving that not only is the Pentagon currently involved in shipping up to $2.2 billion worth of (mostly old Soviet) weapons from private dealers to US-backed Syrian militants, but is actually manipulating paperwork such as end-user certificates in order to conceal the ultimate destinations of the weaponry (in this case Syria).
The new investigation also confirms Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva's prior findings, which exposed the role of Azerbaijan-operated Silk Way Airlines in the weapons airlifts. Though independent journalists and regional monitoring groups have been digging into the Pentagon arms shipments throughout the summer, mainstream European and American press were reluctant to cover the story, even as a steady flow of incontrovertible proof emerged online in the form of documents, photos, and videos of mysterious cargo planes being loaded with weapons. Over the past two weeks WikiLeaks has also highlighted the emerging details of a developing story which saw at least one journalist come under scrutiny by European security officials.

Public records reveal that the Pentagon is shipping billions of dollars of arms to Syrian insurgents https://t.co/8idPs57GnI pic.twitter.com/2qQDLzymZk
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) September 13, 2017

After a week of the story picking up momentum, it appears we may finally be seeing the beginnings of public and governmental investigations forming as European governments perhaps reluctantly take stock of Pentagon arms pipelines in their territories now coming under public attention and outrage. As Stripes reports, Germany announced a new legal inquiry early Friday:

The German prosecutor’s office in Kaiserslautern said Friday it is looking into a report that the Pentagon used Ramstein Air Base to transport weapons covertly to rebel fighters in Syria — an allegation, that if true, might have broken German law.

...The weapons transfer through Ramstein would have required permission from the German government, the report stated.

Officials with Germany’s Economic Affairs Ministry told Stars and Stripes that the ministry did not give the U.S. military permission to transport weapons to Syria through the country. They denied having any knowledge of such activities.

Part of the OCCRP and BIRN investigation spotlighted Ramstein as one of the many key transport hubs used in the Syria weapons trafficking program. The arms monitoring groups jointly published a side report on the Pentagon's questionable activities at the German US installation as part of its broader findings on Tuesday.
That report included a newly unearthed internal email authored by the Pentagon’s US Special Operations Command Mission (SOCOM) instructing its partnering contractors to, as BIRN summarizes, "stop trucking Soviet-style weapons from the Balkans through Germany" because "officials in Berlin became concerned about the deliveries."
The closing line of the SOCOM email explicitly acknowledges that, "Germany has become very sensitive to these requests."

SOCOM email published by BIRN's Balkan Insight on Tuesday: "Germany has become very sensitive to these requests."
BIRN questioned the German government over the findings this week and immediately caught German officials lying about their knowledge of the Pentagon weapons transfers.

More at: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...ory-goes-viral


As if they weren't in on it too

"Germany launches probe", lol, that's rich.

[Raginfridus]

Raise the debt ceiling!

Best Deal!

[goldenequity]

EU must press US to abide by JCPOA: Iran's Rouhani
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/09...CPOA-terrorism


Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) and President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives Siegfried Bracke meet in Tehran Saturday, September 16, 2017


“We expect the European Union to first of all, completely implement the JCPOA and secondly,
exert pressure on the US to live up to its commitments under the JCPOA and to give them a strong message,”

5+1
Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council –
the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China – plus Germany signed the nuclear agreement on July 14, 2015
and started implementing it on January 16, 2016.

Instrumental use of terrorism leads to its spread

Ali Shamkhani said on Saturday that the instrumental use of terrorism by certain Western countries for their own interests
had resulted in the spillover of terror to the heart of Europe.

Shamkhani warned about the consequences of efforts by some regional and Western countries to arm, train and support terrorist groups.

He emphasized that the recent events in Europe showed that the instrumental use of terrorism
by certain countries in Iraq and Syria had led to the spillover of this ominous phenomenon
into the heart of Europe, which cannot be controlled.

[Firestarter]

There is a reported “bombshell” report in the alternative media, that shows that the US government transports weapons to ISIS in Syria...

Because in our Brave new world the majority of people suffers from amnesia, nobody can remember that this is actually old “news”. A CIA report from 1983 shows plans to start a war against Syria.
There is also evidence that the Obama administration supported ISIS in Syria: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ed-World-Demog

So what is the bombshell? The government censoring documents?!?
I have to admit that to $2.2 billion worth of weapons ($584 million in 2017 and $584 million in 2018, and another $900 million until 2022) sounds like a lot. More suffering for the Syrian population (and more migrants flooding the EU) is the inevitable result: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...rs-linked-orga


The following story could be the real “bombshell”, but only if somebody is able to connect the dots...
The German prosecutor’s office in Kaiserslautern said Friday it is looking into a report that the Pentagon used Ramstein Air Base to transport weapons covertly to rebel fighters in Syria.
The weapons transfer through Ramstein would have required permission from the German government: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...ory-goes-viral

Sure Germany is “sensitive” that information like this will come out during the first 9 months of 2017.
This cannot possibly be a ploy to manipulate the elections of the German Bundestag on 24 September 2017: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/ge...-fourth-term1/


Maybe that the weapons suppliers — primarily in Eastern Europe but also in Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Ukraine —have links to organised crime is a “bombshell”. But then again the Trump Organization has been involved in money laundering since at least the 1980s: https://newrepublic.com/article/1435...rime-syndicate

Of course we can sleep through both the night and day knowing that Robert Mueller’s “investigation” doesn’t cover this up.
Maybe I’m the only one to think it’s suspicious that Robert Mueller is connected to none other than Brian McCauley, who received $28,000 of the suspicious money from the Dutch-Turkish agent Ekim Alptekin to the Flynn Intel Group, which was laundered through the Dutch Inovo BV: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post6522027

[goldenequity]

One more thing swept from the short memories
was the attempted audit (never ever completed) of the Pentagon
showing almost 6 TRILLION in cooked books JUST in the year 2015.
I shiit you not. You can look it up as it was 'scarcely' reported during August 2016 'election' focus.
Here... I'll help

[Firestarter]

So while we were chasing pizzas and hotdogs in Wikileaks mails and Comet PingPong, there was $6.5 trillion missing? A trillion that’s 12 zeroes, a thousand billions…

That “bombshell” sure makes a whole lot more sense to me, than weapons that were reportedly produced in Eastern Europe, and then flown to Ramstein in West-Germany to end up in Syria: http://www.dodig.mil/pubs/report_summary.cfm?id=7034

The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management & Comptroller) (OASA[FM&C]) and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service Indianapolis (DFAS Indianapolis) did not adequately support $2.8 trillion in third quarter journal voucher (JV) adjustments and $6.5 trillion in yearend JV adjustments¹ made to AGF data during FY 2015 financial statement compilation.² The unsupported JV adjustments occurred because OASA(FM&C) and DFAS Indianapolis did not prioritize correcting the system deficiencies that caused errors resulting in JV adjustments, and did not provide sufficient guidance for supporting system‑generated adjustments.

In addition, DFAS Indianapolis did not document or support why the Defense Departmental Reporting System‑Budgetary (DDRS-B), a budgetary reporting system, removed at least 16,513 of 1.3 million records during third quarter FY 2015. This occurred because DFAS Indianapolis did not have detailed documentation describing the DDRS-B import process or have accurate or complete system reports.

[charrob]

Why is the Pentagon spending billions of dollars purchasing Soviet and east European weapons to ship to Syrian rebels? A blockbuster Bulgarian investigative report exposes the lies and illegality of the purchases and shipments; several mainstream investigations corroborate the Bulgarian report. Investigative Reporter Dilyana Gaytandzhieva joins the Liberty Report to explain her findings -- and why they got her interrogated and fired.

Read the investigative report here.

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives...pons-pipeline/