How the Taliban got their hands on modern US missiles

NY Post ^ | 6/8/2014 | Timmerman

[mgist]

In his new book, “Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened in Ben­ghazi” writer Kenneth R. Timmerman explains how the US government’s efforts to arm the Libyan rebels backfired, flooding weapons into Syria.

The Obama administration isn’t only giving the Taliban back its commanders — it’s giving them weapons. Miliary records and sources reveal that on July 25, 2012, Taliban fighters in Kunar province successfully targeted a US Army CH-47 helicopter with a new generation Stinger missile. They thought they had a surefire kill. But instead of bursting into flames, the Chinook just disappeared into the darkness as the American pilot recovered control of the aircraft and brought it to the ground in a hard landing. The assault team jumped out the open doors and ran clear in case it exploded. Less than 30 seconds later, the Taliban gunner and his comrade erupted into flames as an American gunship overhead locked onto their position and opened fire. The next day, an explosive ordnance disposal team arrived to pick through the wreckage and found unexploded pieces of a missile casing that could only belong to a Stinger missile.

Modal Trigger The Taliban took out a US Chinook helicopter in 2012 with a Stinger missile signed out by the CIA around the time of the attack.

Reuters Lodged in the right nacelle, they found one fragment that contained an entire serial number.

When the results came back, they were stunning: The Stinger tracked back to a lot that had been signed out by the CIA recently, not during the anti-Soviet ­jihad. Reports of the Stinger reached the highest echelons of the US command in Afghanistan and became a source of intense speculation, but no action.

[zeugma]

If you really want to get depressed about this, consider that this isn't news to the congressional committee "investingating" Bengazi. This is really explosive stuff, (if you'll pardon the pun), but yet congress is ignoring this entire aspect of the gun/missile running that was going on there. Ask yourself, if we actually really did have two parties in this country, would this kind of stuff be ignored?

We are all being played for fools. The establishment protects itself before anything else.

[gaijin]

VOTE FOR HILLAGHAZI…? >_

[gaijin]

Keep Repeating It:

Extortion 17’s voice-recorder was washed away in a FLOOD.

From a mountain side.

In Afghanistan.

Uh-huh….

LUCKY RPG-7 HIT..?! Sure, uh-huh...