The day after Inner City Press asked both US Ambassador Samantha Power and UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric about the UN Mission in South Sudan giving automatic weapons to warlord James Koang, who killed civilians, a new UN outrage was brought to the attention of Inner City Press and after its publishing and asking about it (video here), was confirmed by the UN.
Since the UN covered up its arming of South Sudan warlord Koang, and refuses to answer written questions including about its use of public funds, we published this report on this we'll follow up:
The UN Assistance Mission in Iraq, UNAMI, under the authority of the UN Department of Safety and Security (DSS), have "lost" 25 weapons from their armory in their base in the Green Zone in Baghdad.
The loss includes 18 Glock 9mm pistols, 5 G36 assault rifles, and 2 G36 sniper rifles. Sources say that 10,000s of thousands of rounds of ammunition are also missing.
DSS only discovered or internally acknowledged this months after the fact and cannot account for their loss. The UN's Fijian Guard Unit have had to start patrolling inside the base.
Source: Inner City Press
Related: Small Arms Survey Sudan [PDF]
Washington Post: Report: U.N. gave arms to South Sudan rebels later implicated in massacre
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @09:54PM
Unrelatedly, plutonium amounting to "more than 600 pounds, and possibly several times that" went missing from U.S. inventories between 1996 and 2004 (http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/LOS-ALAMOS-Plutonium-could-be-missing-from-lab-2591846.php [sfgate.com]) and there have been other instances of missing plutonium:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140420214927/http://thebulletin.org/did-israel-steal-bomb-grade-uranium-united-states7056 [archive.org]
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-security-iaea-idUSBRE95R0BV20130628 [reuters.com]
If someone has misappropriated it, such amounts could be enough to construct 10,000s of thousands of rounds of plutonium-coated ammunition in addition to the 10,000s of thousands of rounds of conventional ammunition. With a little Clostridium botulinium toxin on the tip, such ammunition could be deadly! The 25 missing guns make this even more worrisome. An army wielding those guns and ammunition could kill or injure 10,000s of thousands of innocent people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2016, @11:10PM
*up to 10,000s of thousands