“Since 2014, the CTEF program funded by the U.S. has provided over $5 billion of equipment, vehicles, uniforms, stipends, medical supplies, etc.”-Colonel Wayne Marotto, U.S. Army in Iraq
On 26JUL2021, the same day U.S. President Joe Biden announced an end to U.S. combat action in Iraq, U.S. forces in Iraq handed over $25-million worth of ‘strategic communication and maintenance equipment’ to Iraqi forces. The U.S. military officially calls it ‘divestiture’ or ‘divestment’, it’s part of the never ending Counter-ISIS Train and Equip Fund (CTEF) program.
Also, the Ministry of Peshmerga-Kurdistan Region received more than 70 HMMWVs and Navistars from U.S. taxpayers, on 26JUL2021!
That wasn’t the only giveaway in July 2021, on the 19th of July U.S. forces gave Iraqi forces ammunition and Toyota ‘ambulances’ and pick-ups, valued at more than $2.75 million!
Also included were several Navistar flatbed trucks. Navistar has been paid tens of millions of U.S. dollars since 2007, to deliver trucks to Iraq.
Then on 10JUL2021, U.S. taxpayers gave Iraqi forces $2.5-million worth of Toyotas and backhoe loaders!
But wait, there is more for the latest CTEF financial rip-offs. CTEF also gave 98 U.S. taxpayer funded Toyotas to Kurdish Peshmerga militia in January of this year: “We are going to see in the next 10 to 18 months is the divestment of up to 12 brigades worth of equipment to the Ministry of Peshmerga’s Regional Guard Brigades. It’s about $166 million worth of equipment that will be issued out.”-Colonel David Williams, U.S. Army Director of the Kurdistan Coordination Center
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