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January 23rd, 2016 
Awake Goy When in the summer of 2014 Germany started to deliver weapons to the Peshmerga – the fighting force of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq – the decision was highly controversial in Germany.
Up until that point a German government had never sent weapons into an active war zone.
Critics claimed the Bundeswehr (German army) would lose track of the weapons once they had been delivered and they could easily fall into the wrong hands.
The NDR investigation now shows that these fears were well founded.
In gun markets outside the capital Erbil and in second city Sulaimaniya, the broadcaster found Bundeswehr rifles and pistols for sale.
The letters ‘HK’ in the serial number signifying production by German gunmaker Heckler & Koch, and the ‘Bw’ for the Bundeswehr prove that the weapons are those delivered by Germany over the past 18 months, NDR claims.
A Kurdish fighter with a German-made G36 rifle near the city of Kirkuk, Iraq, in early 2015. Photo: DPA
According to one ex-Peshmerga fighter spoken to by NDR, a G36 rilfe (the standard Bundeswehr assault rifle) used to cost $4,000 (€3,690) but the price has collapsed in recent months because there are too many on the market.
In the market outside Erbil, the journalists were offered a G36 for between $1,450 and $1,800 (€1,338-€1662).
By last the summer the Bundeswehr had delivered 12,000 G3 rifles, 8,000 G36 rifles, and 8,000 P1 pistols to the Peshmerga. The ministry of Defence has previously has admitted it doesn’t know which fighting units received the weapons.
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