Posted on 09/26/2011 7:19:49 AM PDT by Just4Him
Helped by highly sophisticated contraband weapons smuggled out of Libya, Iran and Hizballah are getting the Palestinian Hamas equipped for another round of hostilities with Israel. debkafile's military sources report that Sunday, Sept. 25, Egyptian security forces, acting on information from a Western intelligence source, homed in near Ismailia on a large half-empty buried cache of advanced SA-24 anti-air infrared missiles (a version of the US Stinger) stored there en route from Libya to Gaza.
The information came too late to block delivery; most of the crates were found empty of their contents of missiles and other military equipment which must already be on their way to Sinai or Gaza. Some of the empty containers were found to have contained Russian-made MDM-3 sea mines, of the type Muammar Qaddafi scattered around Libyan ports in May to keep NATO vessels at bay.
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the new NATO-imposed libyan government moves quickly to expand its radical alliances
Mike
I’m shocked, simply shocked, I tell you to learn that radical Islamists have influence/control in the new Libyan government. /s/
Some reports say that the looters took the launchers and the missiles but ignored the batteries for them. Of course the batteries are required, and they are not your common AA type (they are custom p/n 9Б17.) There is hope that most of the loot will be useless.
Here is a pretty good article about this weapon. Appears that the Libyan stock was produced on Bulgarian factories.
Due to Obummers incredible bumbling in foreign affairs, Radidal Islam is growing leaps and bounds. As Gaza is close to the main air traffic channel into the only international airport by Tel Aviv, this will greatly endanger civilian’s, the Jihadi favorite target.
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