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Algerian troops find huge arms cache on Libya border [incl 500 MANPAD]
Reuters ^
| Thu Oct 24, 2013 3:47pm EDT
| Lamine Chikhi
Posted on 10/24/2013 4:01:40 PM PDT by 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.
...
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.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: algeria; armscache; benghazi; egypt; libya; libyaborder; lybia; mali; manpad; sam; sams; syria; waronterror
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posted on
10/24/2013 4:01:40 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
And of course they destroyed them——right??
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posted on
10/24/2013 4:03:24 PM PDT
by
Venturer
(Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
To: Venturer
The article doesn’t say but I’m willing to take a guess.
No.
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posted on
10/24/2013 4:05:20 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
10/24/2013 4:18:12 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Pan_Yan
Was there a cache of “Anti-Islam YouTube videos” too?
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posted on
10/24/2013 4:26:04 PM PDT
by
Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
(If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
To: MestaMachine; LucyT; penelopesire; maggief; Nachum
Ut oh! Finger print them all ! Who did they come from?
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posted on
10/24/2013 4:31:06 PM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
To: Pan_Yan
Where’s the purchase order with hussein’s signature?
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posted on
10/24/2013 4:44:23 PM PDT
by
bgill
(This reply was mined before it was posted.)
To: bgill
McCain and Graham used to love to go play diplomat with Gaddaffi. I’d check their luggage first.
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posted on
10/24/2013 4:54:48 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
It is only a matter of time before the people Obastard supported in Libya shoot down a civilian aircraft with those weapons.
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posted on
10/24/2013 4:56:51 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
10/24/2013 5:10:19 PM PDT
by
Garvin
(When it comes to my freedom, there will be no debate. There will be a fight)
To: Garvin
Fast & Furious Libyan Style
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posted on
10/24/2013 5:12:27 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
10/24/2013 5:19:08 PM PDT
by
sarasmom
(Extortion 17. A large number of Navy SEALs died on that mission. Ask why.)
To: Pan_Yan
Did they find the note that said “Good luck with your endeavor” signed “Your good friend Barry”?
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posted on
10/24/2013 5:45:40 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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.
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posted on
10/24/2013 5:54:36 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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