[xzins]

I'm appalled....they stored weapons near an FBI office. The next thing you know they'll be telling me that the military, against all common sense, stores ammunition on military bases. Who in the world do they think they are?!!

And a building that heats with fuel oil had the audacity to store its fuel in fuel tanks in it's own building. I'll bet they even had electrically hot circuit boxes where dangerous electricity entered the building.

[sam_paine]

xzins, the point that is glossed over here is not that they had the weapon there, but why they had it there. Just exactly what kind of people are you setting up in a sting when selling rockets??? Could it be, oh, Idunno, terrorists???

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More than 40 international armed forces employ TOW Weapon Systems and they are integrated in more than 15,000 ground vehicle and helicopter platforms worldwide.

[eno_]

I have to agree. I usually the firt to rip Keystone Kops a new one, but from the account it sounds as if the missile was specially prepared to be as safe as possible for use in sting operations. A non-event.