South Park to Feature Eric Cartman in Blackwater

Thanks to Stupid Monkey Planet for pointing out this inevitible story.

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‘South Park’ to Show Eric Cartman Signing, Blackwater-like, for 500 AK-47s




On Feb. 23, I broke a story about how the Senate Armed Services Committee determined that Blackwater employees in Afghanistan signed for hundreds of AK-47s and pistols using the name “Eric Cartman,” evidently a reference to the popular “South Park” character. . .

Read more at: The Independent

Kid Sells Millions of Bad Bullets in Arms Contract?

Photo from source, New York Times

There have been a ton of stories about contractors ripping off the government. . .or our government being complicit in giving contracts where they are getting ripped off. It's one big mess. But this one really takes the cake. This kid (he was 18 when he got started) seems to have made millions by selling crappy imported artillery shells to the government for use in Afghanistan (you know, the other war). What, was he really good at eBay? This is just nuts.

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Supplier Under Scrutiny on Arms for Afghans

Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the American military has relied since early last year on a fledgling company led by a 22-year-old man whose vice president was a licensed masseur. . .

Read more at: New York Times