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Don't you just love those rebels who fought for human rights in Libya?
20K missiles are enough to turn a war....
U.S. officials had once thought there was little chance that terrorists could get their hands on many of the portable surface-to-air missiles that can bring down a commercial jet liner.
But now that calculation is out the window, with officials at a recent secret White House meeting reporting that thousands of them have gone missing in Libya.
"Matching up a terrorist with a shoulder-fired missile, that's our worst nightmare," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D.-California, a member of the Senate's Commerce, Energy and Transportation Committee.
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Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch first warned about the problem after a trip to Libya six months ago. He took pictures of pickup truckloads of the missiles being carted off during another trip just a few weeks ago.
So, where are these missiles winding up?
business InsiderThe equipment is believed to be on its way to Sinai or Gaza for use by Palestinian Hamas against Israel.
Included with the missing SAMs are boxes that contained Russian MDM-3 sea mines, like those used by Qaddafi around Libyan ports at the beginning of the NATO led invasion.
Many of Qaddafi's weapons stores were raided and their contents sold to black-marketeers. So many weapons have been sold into the North African market recently that prices have dramatically dropped.
Don't you just love those rebels who fought for human rights in Libya?
20k SAMS lmao, thats more then what australia has in stock....
The world-wide MIC doesn't care if their death peddling comes back to haunt them. They just keep peddling death to corrupt, undemocratic, unstable govts.
After Saudi Arabia crushed the Bahrain protests with US equipment, the US/world oil execs just had a huge oil/gas conference in Bahrain in September. The UCA, essentially supra-national powers wealthier, more powerful, more focused, more corrupt than any govt, doesn't GAF about the lies of freedom and democracy, eg, used by the Repugs to invade Iraq, which was all about the oil, just like Libya.
This is not a problem. Just ask Chumpdumper. He says they have always had them and they won't REALLY use them on commercial airliners.
Last edited by CosmicCowboy; 10-02-2011 at 10:00 PM.
They have had them for many years before. I proved that.
Why haven't they used them in the US already?
And you never answered these questions.
I'm sure ABC will have the obligatory PanAm episode with a towelhead firing a missile to one of their planes...
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