Exclu­sively reported on Al-Hayat today, a list of Iraq pur­chased weapons for the year 2007, Al-Hayat accuses the Amer­i­cans of pre­vent­ing the Iraqi army from access­ing heavy arms.

The list shows the fol­low­ing:
1– 72 tanks, (T-55) and 77 tanks (T-72) Russian-made (left­over from the for­mer Iraqi army????).
2– 1133 guerilla-war 60-mm mor­tars.
3– 360 offen­sive mil­i­tary vehi­cles (BMp-1) Russian-made.
4– 35 Brazil­ian Cas­cavel
5– 61 (MT-LB) per­son­nel car­rier Russian-made
6– 434 (BTR) per­son­nel car­rier Russian-made
7– 600 (DZIK) mil­i­tary vehi­cles Poland-made.

An anony­mous source from the Iraq Min­istry of Defense told the news­pa­per that the Amer­i­cans are pre­vent­ing the arma­ment of the Iraqi army. Pur­chas­ing the weapons is done by an Amer­i­can agency called FMC Corp., the job of the Iraqi rep­re­sen­ta­tives is to make a list of their needs, this list must be approved by the Amer­i­cans, do not allow the pur­chase of heavy weapons such as: artilleries and air-defense systems.

The source added that the Amer­i­cans don’t trust the Iraqis.