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Nightmare In Libya: Thousands Of Surface-to-Air Missiles Unaccounted For
ABCNews.com ^ | 27 Sept 2011 | Brian Ross & Matthew Cole

Posted on 09/27/2011 3:28:07 PM PDT by edpc

The White House announced today it planned to expand a program to secure and destroy Libya's huge stockpile of dangerous surface-to-air missiles, following an ABC News report that large numbers of them continue to be stolen from unguarded military warehouses.

Currently the U.S. State Department has one official on the ground in Libya, as well as five contractors who specialize in "explosive ordinance disposal", all working with the rebel Transitional National Council to find the looted missiles, White House spokesperson Jay Carney told reporters.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: congressabdicates; dnctreason; libya; libyasams; middleeast; obama; obamatreason; sams; wot
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ABC News reported today U.S. officials and security experts were concerned some of the thousands of heat-seeking missiles could easily end up in the hands of al Qaeda or other terrorists groups, creating a threat to commercial airliners.

unintended consequnces + ineptitude x Obama = dead Americans

1 posted on 09/27/2011 3:28:11 PM PDT by edpc
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Yeh, Right...We have one official on the ground in Libya. We’re not stupid. I believe Gaddafi has a few British POWs.


2 posted on 09/27/2011 3:33:08 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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It's okay. Obama likes the guys who now control these missiles.

ML/NJ

3 posted on 09/27/2011 3:38:45 PM PDT by ml/nj
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They will end up in Obama’s new Palestinian homeland for his Muslim Brothers. They will shoot down Israeli helicopters, planes and airliners one day. In that distant future, those thousands will be used against American aircraft in all parts of the world - even here in our country.

This is what Obama has wrought.


4 posted on 09/27/2011 3:41:01 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: edpc

Such are the consequences of losing an election.

This is what happens when the least qualified guy in any room he enters is put in charge of something he is completely unqualified to discuss, much less act upon.


5 posted on 09/27/2011 3:41:58 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Obama got mostly Ds and Fs all through college and law school. Keep repeating it.....)
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I’m glad to see this WH spring into action regarding a serious security threat that first emerged, if I recollect, sometime in July.

I can’t think of a better way to get these missiles into the hands of AQ, but I’m sure that that was never the intention.


6 posted on 09/27/2011 3:43:13 PM PDT by mojito
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If you consider 4 to 5 years distant. Shoot down one plane in Atlanta, Miami, and maybe LA or Seattle and you’ve just destroyed the aviation industry. No one will fly.


7 posted on 09/27/2011 3:46:32 PM PDT by gatorhead
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Obama MEANT for the Muslim Botherhood and Hamas, and other terrorist organizations to get the weapons. Jan 20, 2013 can’t get here enough.


8 posted on 09/27/2011 3:48:03 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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They will come in on a huge cargo ship with hundreds of ocean going containers....It’ll likely come from China, pre-cleared.


9 posted on 09/27/2011 3:49:35 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Bean Counter

I thought Obama had good grades in college. He was a law journal editor as well, right?


10 posted on 09/27/2011 3:54:16 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: edpc

They were sold to the NYPD


11 posted on 09/27/2011 3:56:42 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (New gets old. Steampunk is always cool)
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The White House announced today it planned to expand a program to secure and destroy Libya's huge stockpile of dangerous surface-to-air missiles...

Oh, yeah. Of course we knew about the missiles. We have a plan in place and we're just going to expand it. Can we continue this later I've got to make a call... - Jay Carney.

12 posted on 09/27/2011 3:56:53 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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Obama and NATO serve only Ikhwan and terrorists.

When those missiles are incoming to General aviation
and murder innocents, will anyone remember the source?


13 posted on 09/27/2011 3:57:03 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Oztrich Boy

LOL at current events reference.


14 posted on 09/27/2011 4:36:22 PM PDT by edpc (Former Normalcy Bias Victim)
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To: gatorhead

A couple of weeks back, I was standing on my BIL’s balcony watching a plane coming low overhead to land. My thought at the time was, “They are so vulnerable the only thing that keeps these planes safe is the good will of the people and the lack of missiles in the hands of the radicals.” My thought is now quite dated.


15 posted on 09/27/2011 4:43:43 PM PDT by JimSEA (The future ain't what it used to be.)
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What kind of SAMs?
What is the shelf-life?
Don’t stingers have an engineered planned self-kill because the batteries die and can’t be easily replaced?


16 posted on 09/27/2011 5:07:00 PM PDT by dadgum (Overjoyed to be a Pariah)
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This Kenyan son of a whore will have the blood of thousands on his hands.

Makes Al-Queda look responsible by comparison.

17 posted on 09/27/2011 5:08:05 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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I think Ray Kelly has a stack of them so the NYPD can take down airplanes . . . .


18 posted on 09/27/2011 5:08:53 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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19 posted on 09/27/2011 5:09:21 PM PDT by nascarnation
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...don’t know...these are supposedly Russian SAMs....anyone know the technical details on these weapons?


20 posted on 09/27/2011 5:20:57 PM PDT by john drake (Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
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