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BIGGER SHOCK: The New York Times Reports On It..
When Clinton, Rice and Power launched operation R2P in Benghazi Libya they specifically helped the Libyan “Rebels” to overthrown Kaddaffi. This gave the al-Qaeda operatives, who made up the majority coalition of the “rebels”, immediate access to weapons warehouses and massive stockpiles of ManPads (Man Portable Air Defense Systems), otherwise known as surface to air missiles – the missiles were a specific manufacture coming originally from Russia. 20,000 such missiles immediately went missing.
This past weekend one of those missiles was used.
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All five soldiers in the helicopter were killed, security officials said.
“This is what everyone has long assumed could happen, and it is a confirmation of those fears — that substantial and advanced weaponry came into the country in the aftermath of the Libyan war,” said Michael Wahid Hanna, an Egypt scholar at the Century Foundation in New York.
New York Times – Islamist militants shot down an Egyptian military helicopter in the Sinai Peninsula with a surface-to-air missile over the weekend, raising new alarms about the terrorist insurgency that developed there in response to the military takeover last summer.
When the first passenger jet goes down, Obama will blame a video
What proof do you have that the missiles came from Libya? The SA-7 is a ubiquitous missile that could very well have been smuggled in from Iraq or Syria via Gaza or Iran.
Sounds like you’re spit-balling here.
Honestly, they must have overdosed on stupid pills flying that high.
This paragraph contains the key:
IF this video is online where WE can see it, we could probably tell immediately whose MANPAD was used in this particular attack.
I saw no link.
Except to the NYTimes.
Does it have this video?
I recall kassam rockets created in Gaza from sewer pipes.
Videos of Hamas firing them were clear enough to read their labels from the pipe’s manufacturer.
The launcher looks like a Russian SA-16. Ten crates of them were looted from a Syrian military depot in Aleppo around 2 months ago. See the article and videos here and here. By now, they could be just about anywhere.
How obvious is it that the Olympic games next month in Sochi are high up on somebody’s list? I’ll be relieved when they’re safely over.
@Greg:
Don’t be concerned Greg, if anything happens Obama can still blame it on GW Bush.
I’ve noticed it’s almost always someone on the right who brings up George W. Bush, or who makes an accusation that can only be contradicted by referring to him. I sometimes wonder if about half the animosity toward Obama has to do with a need to revise history in a way that makes the Bush administration look like some sort of success, despite the fact that it ended with a series of rapidly escalating disasters.
Not to worry. I’m sure Vladimir Putin has the problem with the shoulder-launched missiles well in hand. Maybe he can send out a recall. After all, it was the Russians who manufactured and exported nearly all of the damn things. Their profits, but our problem…
Hillary Clinton Says Benghazi Attack Was ‘Unpredictable’ and ‘Unforeseen’ Event
@Rasputin:
20,000 were cut loose from Libya when Obama knocked it over.
@Rasputin:
Here’s more:
I don’t recall republicans predicting anything, at least until they had events in sight in their rear view mirror. Maybe they were too busy cutting the State Department’s budget to be paying attention—money which pays for things like diplomatic security. House republicans voted to authorize $128 million less than the Obama administration requested for fiscal year 2011, and $331 million less than requested for 2012. They proposed $216 million less than was requested for 2013. The Ryan budget, a big favorite with republicans, would have cut 2014 State Department funding by nearly 20 percent—around $400 million.
After a budget meeting with John Boehner in February 2011, Hillary Clinton made the following statement:
Here’s the sort of rebuttal that was coming from republicans. From Michael Steele, a spokesman for John Boehner, February 2011:
@Greg:
Yeah, we like to be ahead of the lefties. You know anything the lefties are first in?