Missing Trucks Just ‘Borrowed’
The disappearance of at least 50 U.S. military vehicles from a forward Army facility has mystified commanders for weeks and raised fears that they had been stolen by terrorists planning attacks on American bases.
Most of the five-ton trucks and utility vehicles were taken at night from a compound that commanders considered secure. In response to the disappearances, sentries went on heightened alert at U.S. bases and military police launched an investigation.
Investigators said Friday that none of the vehicles had been found. But Maj. Gen. Robert Johnston, briefing reporters in Riyadh on Monday, said there has been a breakthrough in the investigation: 10 of the vehicles assigned to an Army Reserve unit have been located and most of the others apparently had been “borrowed” by the Marines.
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