SA-24 Grinch: Libya had 20,000 of them...!
Posted on 09/13/2012 1:30:30 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican
One of the Americans killed alongside Ambassador Christopher Stevens in an attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya Tuesday told ABC News before his death that he was working with the State Department on an intelligence mission to round up dangerous weapons in the war-torn nation.
In an interview with ABC News last month, Glen Doherty, a 42-year-old former Navy SEAL who worked as a contractor with the State Department, said he personally went into the field to track down so-called MANPADS, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, and destroy them. After the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the State Department launched a mission to round up thousands of MANPADS that may have been looted from military installations across the country. U.S. officials previously told ABC News they were concerned the MANPADS could fall into the hands of terrorists, creating a threat to commercial airliners.
Doherty said that he traveled throughout Libya chasing reports of the weapons and once they were found, his team would destroy them on the spot by bashing them with hammers or repeatedly running them over with their vehicles. When ABC News spoke to Doherty in late August, he was enjoying a short time off in California before heading back to Libya just days ago.
The State Department declined to comment on Doherty's involvement in the MANPADS program, but pointed to a previous statement from State Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro in which he said the department was looking at "every possible tool to mitigate the threat."
According to military records provided to ABC News, Doherty joined the Navy in 1996 and was a combat medic and a decorated member of the elite SEAL teams by the time he left active duty in 2004.
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But they do nothing about dangerous weapons in Mexico, you know that country on our southern border?
Fast and Furious 2.0?
Coming soon to an airport near you, MANPADS
I think that’s what Hillary wears.
I smell BS. I can't believe anyone who had that assignment would tell some blabber mouth reporter.
So, who were the terrorists targeting; the career diplomat or the guy who was going to take away their toys?
I’ve been saying it since we started arming them.
Fast and Furious North Africa division.
Oh no, not "soon", these things have been smuggled in to the US via Mexico for many years. DHS was giving local law enforcement seminars on how to indentify MANPAD parts shortly after 9/11. I will not fly commercial if I can help it.
looks like ...they wanted to dump some weapons in there to see what would happen to them .
“Doherty said that he traveled throughout Libya chasing reports of the weapons”
Why would he do an interview about his mission? Wouldn’t the State Department have to ok this interview?!!!
Yep, why would he blab to the media?
I thought those nondisclosure agreements were LIFELONG.
And anything remotely close to talking to ANY media was to be authorized.
:(
They make it sound like the number of missiles were 10 or 11:
THE NUMBER IS OVER FIVE THOUSAND.
And they’re not the type easily fooled with flares.
THANK YOU HILLARY.
SA-24 Grinch: Libya had 20,000 of them...!
If they were rounding them up in Libya, was it to send them to Syria? Seem’s like Obama has armed the entire ME, (Muslim Brotherhood).
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Did someone in Team Soetoro tip off the Muslim Brotherhood about the presence and mission of these two former SEALs??
my gosh, this is awful.
I do have to wonder if the 2 SEALS were the target of AQ and the State Department personnel were just collateral damage.
Oh, and one other thing... there were no Marines providing any security for any of the diplomatic personnel in Benghazi?
W.T.F.
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