Posted on 10/13/2011 8:42:18 AM PDT by mojito
EL ARISH, Egypt — Large caches of weapons from Libya are making their way across the Egyptian border and flooding black markets in Egypt’s already unstable Sinai Peninsula, according to current and former Egyptian military officials and arms traders in the Sinai.
Egyptian security officials have intercepted surface-to-air missiles, most of them shoulder-launched, on the road to Sinai and in the smuggling tunnels connecting Egypt to the Gaza Strip since Moammar Gaddafi fell from power in Libya in August, a military official in Cairo said. Arms traders said the weapons available on Sinai’s clandestine market include rockets and antiaircraft guns.
The seizures raise fresh concerns about security along the sensitive area that borders the Gaza Strip and Israel, at a time when unrest is roiling the region. The addition of shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to arsenals of Palestinian fighters in Gaza could add significantly to the threat against Israel, whose helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft frequently patrol the strip, which is controlled by the militant Islamist group Hamas.
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By their fruits ye shall know them.
Obummer and powers are dancing, the boner leadership help them get the job done.
Fast & Furious Part II?
Camel Walker?
LOL. Camel Walker it is.
Maybe the Copts can pick up some anti-tank weapons.
WORST President ever.
Threat against Israel?! How about the threat against civilian aircraft?!
THIS is where our unprotected southern border will be our undoing.
Imagine Al Qaeda staging multiple attacks across the country simultaneously against commercial aircraft.
Its coming.
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