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Thread: 10,000-20,000 shoulder fired rockets go missing in Libya

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    Well, at least we now know why we had "retired" SEALs in Libya. News about the MANPADs and the mission to recover them leaked a few days after the attack, but was quickly shut down within the media.

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    And if we support the Syrian rebels, and what happens to their WMD's? Gonna send in US troops to TRY and secure all of those?



    Supporting the "new" Arabia AKA Muslim Brotherhood led middle east is is mine field full of "one mistake and the crazies get WMD's" steps, and I think we've already missed the boat on quite a few things.



    Now, apparently, we can sit on our hands and wait for the UN to take care of Iran since Biden never heard of a SCUD missile or a boat.

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    SAM's or no SAM's. Get close to an airport with an RPG and fire at the aircraft while on the runway and you can kill hundreds of passengers.

    Not very difficult to do. You can also nail one as it is making a landing. With Europe's open borders, it is a reality.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Sensei View Post
    I agree with this assessment. My only concern would be if Putin or China was selling more updated systems to Libya just prior to the revolution. It would only take a few dozen to create real problems.
    I think your fears are well grounded. According to this up to date SA-24 were in Khadafi forces' hands. "As seen on TV" . ETA: Come comments are disputing the ID of these. However, they are not old soviet era SA-7

    http://justinwrites.wordpress.com/20...raft-missiles/

    ETA2: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011...uper-missiles/

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    when I went to HS back in the NW I remember being on the hood canal bridge a few times when they would close it for the nuclear subs to pass through ! and they were right there !!! two other boats with them but I could for sure have hit them with a slingshot close !!

    we used to dive the old bridge wreck that sunk in the 80s and can say when you are diving a submarine is actually kinda loud we swam up to the underside of the bridge and then along side popped up and sure enough there was the sub going past maybe couple hundred yards or so ?

    I know they used to have some thing where they had to be on the surface ? heard they now go underwater ? dont know but a Lawyer (friends dad) of mine was going to write a book back in the 80s how terrorists went down to the bridge and blew one up.

    Would make a good Grisham novel
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    Had we not supported "Al Qaeda" we would not have this worry - nor the events that have since transpired in Benghazi.

    "Oh what a wicked web we weave when we practice to deceive..."
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