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Mali manual suggests al-Qaida has feared weapon
Yahoo News ^ | 6/11/2013 | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

Posted on 06/12/2013 8:34:53 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

The photocopies of the manual lay in heaps on the floor, in stacks that scaled one wall, like Xeroxed, stapled handouts for a class.

Except that the students in this case were al-Qaida fighters in Mali. And the manual was a detailed guide, with diagrams and photographs, on how to use a weapon that particularly concerns the United States: A surface-to-air missile capable of taking down a commercial airplane.

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To: TangledUpInBlue

Psssssst.......Got any stingers?


21 posted on 06/12/2013 1:48:37 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” - Orwell)
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To: IncPen

Bingo


22 posted on 06/12/2013 7:13:56 PM PDT by gandalftb
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To: lwd

Barak Obama’s Libyan Fire Sale. Everything Must Go.


23 posted on 06/14/2013 6:42:33 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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