Nightmare in Libya: 20,000 Surface-to-Air Missiles Missing

[natehale1971]

This is really, really frigthening to learn... It's starting to look like our involvement with Libyan Civil War is really going to come back to bite us in the ass BIG TIME.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/nightm...ry?id=14610199

please watch the vidoes... Libyan made mustard gas is ALSO missing.

[DCausey]

This is really scary. I've been leery of this Libya intervention by NATO because we don't know who were getting in the bargain. Could these guys be worse than Al-Quida?

And now with these missing weapons in who knows Who's hands....

[pmulcahy11b]

Isn't blowback a wonderful thing?

[natehale1971]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Isn't blowback a wonderful thing?

Yup. what really is a slap in the face, is the fact that if we had done what we PROMISED we'd do in Afghanistan during the Reagan and First Bush Administration we wouldn't have half the problems we've got with islamic terrorists... we had promised the alliance of freedom fighters we'd provide econonomic, politcal and social support for rebuilding their country when the soviets were driven out. But instead we just left without doing what we promised, and the Taliban came to power because the secular allies we supported just wasn't able to maintain enough public support to keep a secular government in power.

It's one of the reasons why the Second Bush Administration spent so much time, effort and money on nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan hoping we can keep terrorists from getting a stable place to build a base to support them. But in doing that we have supported corrupt officials and social acts in an attempt to cut corners because of political reasons.

:Shakes head:

there are no easy answers... but my grandparents use to say "nothing worth doing is really easy to do" and that "If you're going to do a job, take your time and do it right"

[Webstral]

I'm sure some of the SAM will turn up in Europe or the United States as soon as can be managed.

[Ronin]

The SAM's honestly don't worry me as much as the chemical weapons. We here in the states need to be more prepared for their possible use. But in Europe, how many times have you heard of say the RIRA, or who ever trying to buy, or found in one of their arms caches. But mustard agent seems a far scarier concept. Besides being used offensively. Its also a area denial agent. Imagine trying decontaminate Washington DC. Till then its off limits. Lots of potential for mayhem.

[natehale1971]

I know.... there was evidence that al-Qeada and Muslim Brotherhood were among the leading rebels. But just like what happened in Egypt the administration said we have nothing to fear about the Mulsim Brotherhood. Igoring the fact that a western female reporter was RAPED by several hundred 'peaceful protestors' after one of the screamed out she was a Jew when the spotlights on the camera went out. I've been worried about the 'Arab Spring' since it started... because to many of the 'grassroots' Islamic groups in the middle east have ties to terrorist supporting organizations.

With all the things disappearing in Libya is almost as bad as the things found in Iraq that was severely under reported in the media (Sarin artillery warheads being used for IEDs or the Uranium flown out of the country in 2003 and the rest in 2008 from a nuclear research facility in Iraq), i'm getting really... really, worried about just what weapons can get into Terrorist hands.

All the chaos with the collapse of the Soviet Union and dispearing nuclear warheads was scary as hell in the 1990s. But there was the possibilly of those missing nukes having been accounting errors done by the the soviet bean-counters. With his, they've got pictures and videos of people driving off with TRUCKLOADS of SAM missiles.