Posted on 11/06/2004 8:26:26 AM PST by 4kevin
bout 6000 shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles are outside the control of any government worldwide, according to The New York Times. The number is triple the previous estimate of 2000 missing arms, and about 4000 of the weapons are said to be from Iraq's pre-war arsenals. The new estimate was discussed at a closed Defence Intelligence Agency conference in Alabama last week on the threat posed by the portable missiles to civil aviation, the newspaper said. Western intelligence and security officials have warned in recent months about the danger of attack by al-Qaeda operatives on civilian planes, similar to the 2002 near-hit on an Israeli aircraft leaving Mombasa, Kenya. The weapons, which are about 1.5 metres long, reportedly fetch a minimum of $US5000 ($A6600) on the black market. The new estimate of missing weapons appears to be in line with an estimate by the US Congressional Research Service that Iraqi insurgents could have 4,000 to 5,000 shoulder-fired missiles.
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Well, that says it all :-)
Kerry has them in Ohio for duck hunting. That's why he wasn't carrying anything out of the woods while his hunting "buddies" were.
... LMAO :)
In the words of Def Leppard...."It's hysteria when you're near",the NY Times doing their best to dampen any and all possible good will towards Bush.
Some day, the main stream media will understand that they aren't going to pick our leaders any more.
Explains the video of fighters dropping flares over fallujah during their bombing runs.
The poor old Slimes is backsliding so fast, since their blatant exposure during this election, they are now grasping at straws...oh, don't worry Slimes, there are still plenty of brain-deads that want to read your biased, leftist news...
Bernie Goldberg has it right...Arrogance to the highest levels.
SHELF LIFE
How many of these weapons are beyond their 10 year shelf life?
What have the storage conditions been?
If we're lucky they'll go back to worrying the issue of women at Augusta National Golf Club.
I'm still missing a block of firecrackers I bought in 1998. Should I alert the NYT and blame the Clinton Administration?
In a Pinch, any ol' lie will do.
NYT motto
> Explains the video of fighters dropping flares over
> fallujah during their bombing runs.
It's why every a/c equipped with them deploys them
whenever at low altitude; bombing, landing, departing.
Unfortunately, not all a/c have them:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262958/posts
Working in our favor is that some skill and training
is required to use these weapons effectively:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993127
And the batteries they rely on have a finite shelf life.
bump
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