Following the overthrow of Baghdad in April 2003, “the U.S. military did not secure the massive weapons caches that the Iraqi military had stashed around the country, estimated to amount to one million tons. …[Lieutenant General Ricardo] Sanchez recalls that by May 2003 ‘the Iraqis began holding open-air bazaars that sold everything from small handguns to rocket-propelled grenades.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 156