Posted on 08/14/2013 5:09:41 PM PDT by neverdem
400 US surface-to-air missiles were 'STOLEN' from Libya during the Benghazi attack and are 'now in the hands of Al Qaeda', claims whistleblower
Four hundred American surface-to-air missiles were 'taken from Libya' during the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, a former U.S. Attorney who represents whistleblowers claimed on Monday.
He added that the U.S. intelligence community is terrified they might be used to shoot down airliners. Joe diGenova, whose wife Victoria Toensing – a former deputy assistant attorney general – also represents Benghazi witnesses and others with knowledge of the terror attack, told WMAL radio that the loss of those missiles is also one the reason the U.S. State Department shut down 19 embassies across the Middle East last week.
'A lot of people have come forward to share information with us,' he said during the radio station's 'Mornings On The Mall' program Monday morning.
'We have learned that one of the reasons the administration is so deeply concerned' is that 'there were 400 surface-to-air missiles stolen, and that they are ... in the hands of many people, and that the biggest fear in the U.S. intelligence community is that one of these missiles will be used to shoot down an airliner. 400 missiles, surface-to-air missiles, taken from Libya.'
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The loss of the 400 surface-to-air missiles, he told WMAL's audience, 'is why we shut down the 19 embassies recently.'
'They were afraid that there was going to be a missile attack on one of the embassies. Remember, you can take a shoulder-held missile and shoot it into an embassy. Not just into the sky.'...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well, I hope Obama got a good price for them ...
What waste? When they run out we will just let them steal some more.
It took that long to come up with this one? I guess the cat is out of the bag about the missles, so they have to admit they exist. But Obama didn’t just give them away of course, they were stolen.
The Traitor In Chief was paid in full in 2008 and 2012 with campaign money from the Middle East. Now we know what they bought with that money.
How did they get there ,..to be stolen ?
Sorta reminds me of the Xerox commercial from decades ago , with the monk who looks up to heaven ,and says :" Its a miracle !"
Obviously , the current administration thinks they walked there
Now that would be a miracle !
Fear of flying ?
or fear of being shot down by supplied missles ??
Sounds like we gave them away.
Nice try..! And good one --it does sound very convincing:
But that's still just a cover for the REAL story, which is that as many as 15,600 similar missiles cycled through Bengazi BEFORE 9-11 to end-using bad actors, who might even be WORSE than these "daaaastardly thieving attackers" who got the 400-sample drop in the bucket.
But hey! NICE COVER STORY..!!
Cuz technically, THE COVER **IS** TRUE!
The thieves are worse that the "PROPER RECIPIENTS"..? YEAH RIGHT...!
That leaves 15,600 MANPADS, some of which transited Bengazi prior to 9-11.
They were mostly SA-7's --old and very vulnerable to such simple countermeasures as flares. BELOW:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Sa-7.jpg
Also with the SA-7 featured above the target must be silhouetted against bare sky for the seeker to "see" the target. So if I'm a hilltop rebel trying to fire on a helicopter approaching from low in a valley using the SA-7 Grail, then forget it, the missile sees nothing, since there is a mountain behind him.
But After Reagan's air attack against Khadaffi (much later it turned out his daughter was not killed in the raid, as he'd claimed for many years), Khadaffi imported newer Soviet AA missiles, also, like the SA-24 Grinch, below, and THIS is the real problem:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j5TUVPrTpqA/Tmh48bS0bOI/AAAAAAAAAXM/T2e2iOPYRrw/s400/SA-24_Grinch_9K338_Igla-S_portable_air_defense_missile_system_Libya_Libyan_army_001.jpg
It flies at Mach 2, reaches up above 10,000 feet, and the aircraft needn't be seen against empty sky for targeting. Also the Grinch needn't score a physical hit for detonation --it also comes equipped with proximity fusing, so if senses an impending bypass, it will still trigger. Also if there is remaining fuel, this, too, will be blown in the explosion as a kicker. Even with jamming and flares, about one in four Grinches will score a hit, generally.
What type of success might it get against commercial aircraft in their current form...? The Obama Admin does NOT want to talk about this at all.
The Libyan smugging was a WH/JSOC op, which means VJ BHO Hillary and John Brennan giving orders to a bunch of really secret squirrels who don't ask questions and won't squeal.
They killed some people who got mad, got outside help and fought back, zapping our four guys.
While Obama snorted coke.....
To make a statement.
Anyway I can see 400 MPADS being stolen but I think they would be of Russian origin. Irrespective of that, they cause the same type of problem. I would shudder if I was a euro-weenie. Their airports will be attacked first, France then England. You know, the "tolerant" societies.
The idea that a sitting President would jail someone on bogus charges, send his UN Ambassador to all the Sunday shows and call potential critics racist, and covering up the murder of an ambassador, because the President is afraid that losing 400 missiles to the people who destroyed the World Trade Center just weeks before the election might cause Americans to want to throw him out of office.
-PJ
MR. EUGENE HASENFUS
PLEASE PICK UP A WHITE COURTESY PHONE.
Why would they shoot down Obama, he is their inside guy.
By the way did these missile really get stolen during the attack? Was that the reason for the attack so they could steal the missiles> Or did they already have the missiles and this is Obama’s way of saying how they got them.
Was the video story a cover up for an attack to steal missiles.
If I ask these questions why isn’t the Congress? Why won’t Chicken crap Boehner assign a special prosecutor to find the truth/We have a woman who is going around the country bragging on her special knowledge of foreign affairs who got an Ambassador killed, and who is running for the Presidency. Why isn’t she on the hot seat in a Congressional investigation.
Didn’t I read hear a few days ago, that a surface to air missle had been fired at a building? I can’t remember the details. Information overload. Anybody else remember that story?
I want to hear what the guy in prison in Egypt knows that will “Get Obama thrown in prison”.
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