Algerian troops find huge arms cache on Libya border [incl 500 MANPAD]

Reuters ^ | Thu Oct 24, 2013 3:47pm EDT | Lamine Chikhi

[Pan_Yan]

(Reuters) - Algerian troops discovered a huge arms cache near the border with Libya, including hundreds of surface-to-air missiles, rockets and landmines, an Algerian security source said on Thursday.

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The source said the cache was found in Illizi in southern Algeria, about 200 km (125 miles) from the Amenas gas plant, which Libyan-based Islamist militants attacked in January, killing nearly 40 foreign contractors.

The weapons included 100 anti-aircraft missiles, more than 500 MANPAD shoulder-launched rockets often used against low flying aircraft like helicopters, and hundreds of rocket launchers, rifles, landmines and rocket-propelled grenades, the source added.

[Venturer]

And of course they destroyed them——right??

[Pan_Yan]

The article doesn’t say but I’m willing to take a guess.

No.

[nickcarraway]

mani pedis?

[Don Corleone]

mani pedis?

Maxi Pads?

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Was there a cache of “Anti-Islam YouTube videos” too?

[hoosiermama]

Ut oh! Finger print them all ! Who did they come from?

[bgill]

Where’s the purchase order with hussein’s signature?

[Pan_Yan]

McCain and Graham used to love to go play diplomat with Gaddaffi. I’d check their luggage first.

[Blood of Tyrants]

It is only a matter of time before the people Obastard supported in Libya shoot down a civilian aircraft with those weapons.

[Garvin]

Made in ....

[GeronL]

Fast & Furious Libyan Style

[sarasmom]

Noted

[Mastador1]

Did they find the note that said “Good luck with your endeavor” signed “Your good friend Barry”?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Pan_Yan. The Syrian civil war / disintegration has been going on for more than two years, and the only shooting down that has happened, despite all the hysteria, has been the Syrian Air Force shooting down a Turkish Air Force plane.

• 400 US surface-to-air missiles were 'STOLEN' from Libya during the Benghazi [8/13/2013]
• Al-Qaeda's how-to guide for using (SA-7, Russian 9K32) found in Mali [8/13/2013]
• US has found 5,000 (surface-to-air) missiles in Libya (MANPADS) [12/25/2011]
• Shoulder fired heat seeking missiles missing from multiple Libyan stockpiles [9/08/2011]