I've already funneled everything over to Mexico.
Posted on 10/25/2011 2:09:16 PM PDT by opentalk
Large numbers of weapons, including surface-to-air missiles that could down commercial airliners, are still strewn around unguarded in Libya more than two months after Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in a civil war, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
The New York-based group said it had seen two sites near Sirte, hometown of the late Gaddafi, containing surface-to-air missiles, tank and mortar rounds, munitions and thousands of guided and unguided aerial weapons."Surface-to-air missiles can take down civilian aircraft, and the explosive weapons can be converted easily into car bombs and IEDs (improvised explosive devices or bombs) that have killed thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan," Peter Bouckaert, the group's emergencies director, said in a statement.
He said Human Rights Watch had been warning the leaders of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) and its NATO supporters for months about stockpiles of unsecured weapons that had been regularly raided.
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Happiness is a crew served weapon.
Can I have a couple?
My passport is still good for a few years.
Those SAMs would look nice in the gun case.
Chaos is.. well................. Chaos...
We have found a few ranges that allow full-auto.
So next year you expect the TexasCowboy Memorial Shoot to find a place that allows RPGs?
Well... full auto is SO last year....
I've already funneled everything over to Mexico.
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
Road trip?
Obama is feeling real proud of himself and the huge cluster foxtrot he is leaving for the person who succeeds him. Economy in shambles. Millions unemployed. More fundamental Islamists nations like Iran. Thousands of man portable SA weapons in the hands of who knows who. Regulations that prohibit the development of our natural resources. It’s a wonder that anyone really wants the job.
...In short, the result of Mr. Obama's $2 billion expenditure to oust Gadhafi is a regime that will be led by jihadists, controls vast oil reserves and has inherited a very substantial arsenal (although some of it - including reportedly as many as 20,000 surface-to-air missiles - has "gone missing"). This scarcely can be considered a victory for the United States and probably will prove a grave liability.
On the plus side, most of those SA missiles will probably not work since then have been in storage for years if not decades.
Where is a chartered yacht when you need one?
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