Posted on 01/04/2013 10:53:47 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
EL-ARISH, Egypt January 4, 2013 (AP)Egyptian authorities seized six U.S.-made missiles in the Sinai Peninsula Friday that security officials said were likely smuggled from Libya and bound for the Gaza Strip.
Libya's 2011 uprising and subsequent civil war left the country awash in weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades, automatic rifles and other munitions. Since the end of the country's eight-month conflict, smugglers have transferred some of the weapons to Islamic militants in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which has faced a security vacuum since the country's own uprising, and from there onward in underground tunnels to neighboring Gaza.
Security officials said that police working on a tip from local Bedouin discovered the six U.S.-made missiles hidden in a hole in the desert outside the northern Sinai city of el-Arish before dawn on Friday. They said the anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles have a range of up to two kilometers (one mile). . .
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Five 747 taken down by bombs or missiles or cargo door failures? Which is more plausible? Consider that Boeing had a fix, a service buletin, that was not completed of these five aircraft.
“What’s wrong AP? You cannot expand on “other munitions”? “
I’m sure they found assault weapons. AP finds ‘em everyplace else.
Just let Obama and Omelda have a shopping trip in the city. They’ll be sucking every ATM within a hundred miles dry in seconds. Magically.
I don’t understand either.
I”ve been too sick/offline to post much or read everything, but my continuing heartfelt thanks for your vigilance and pings.
Interesting theory...but why didn’t they try to take out both Stevens and the Turk?
Their man.
Clinton taught all crooked politicians a lesson with the Monica deal. Run the clock out and it’ll go away.
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