Syrian opposition gets shoulder-fired missiles, Gadhafi's lost supplies also turning up

wnd ^ | 5/19/12 | Joseph Farah

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WASHINGTON – There remains frustration in trying to track down up to 20,000 missing shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles taken out of the bunkers during the waning days of the regime of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

Now that they have disappeared, and despite a U.S. program worth tens of millions of dollars to try and relocate them, only 5,000 have been turned in.

Concern is that many of them were acquired by al-Qaida elements in Libya and surrounding countries. Increasingly, intelligence sources also are seeing these weapons wind up in the hands of African jihadists such as the al-Qaida affiliated Boko Haram in Nigeria or the Tuareg tribesmen in Niger and Chad.

Those could be used against commercial airlines. Because civilian airlines would be a likely target, there also is concern that Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb may have acquired many of them and could potentially be smuggling them into Europe. That could be a potential threat to civilian airlines flying there.

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Full title: Syrian opposition gets shoulder-fired missiles, Gadhafi's lost supplies also turning up in hands of terrorists

... this will turn out well

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Would not be surprised if this is a new instantiation of Fast & Furious...

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It’ll take a few extra weeks for the shipment headed for North America to arrive. Until then, they’ll be setting fires wherever the government reports a high probably of wildfires.