Levonda Selph Fiasco

In 2004 and 2005, David Petraeus was responsible for logistics for guns, ammunitions and armor that went to the Iraqi police and security. It is at this site that we may find the root of the problem. Preparation for operations began in March with the renovation of nine warehouses and an office building. In an interview on Aug. 18, General Petraeus said that with ill-equipped Iraqi security forces confronting soaring violence across the country in 2004 and 2005, he made a decision not to wait for formal tracking systems to be put in place before distributing the weapons. "We made a decision to arm guys who wanted to fight for their country," General Petraeus said. Involved in this fiasco was his loyal aide Levonda Selph. That's right, we have 105,000 AK-47's missing from our inventory and no serial numbers or other records of where they went. Levonda Selph acted as the Pony Express of moving the arms out into the hands of our friends or our enemies. We don't know because supposedly there are no records. An inventory management system called Exceed was also established; a private contractor now manages the system.