Posted on 03/13/2016 4:29:39 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Um...this flight originates in Lebanon, New Hampshire and terminates in Portland, Maine.
It’s okay. An Air Serbia route of (Beirut) Lebanon - Serbia - Portland, Oregon doesn’t make any sense. Looking at the Air Serbia website, the only destinations they serve in the US are Chicago, Miami, and New York. If Portland, Oregon was the ultimate destination, the cargo was going to have to be transferred to a different carrier somewhere along the line.
However, the ultimate destination address could be fake and the shipment was intended to “go missing” somewhere in route. Fairly common practice for drug smugglers to use fake addresses and have an insider-tipped team collect parcel service deliveries from front doorsteps. These missiles are fairly large, so maybe the pickup team was within some airport cargo handling operation.
One poster to the article did note that these missiles are laser guided and, even if it is “fire and forget,” the missile still requires a control system to activate it and designate the target to be attacked. Where are those components?
Missiles on Portland-bound plane were for training, Lebanese army says
http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2016/03/missiles_on_portland-bound_pla.html#incart_2box
Serbia investigating...
FBI: Hellfire missiles from Lebanon weren’t headed to Portland after all
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2016/03/fbi_hellfire_missiles_from_leb.html#incart_2box
And how long did it take to figure this out?
How inept has intelligence in this country become in the past 7 years?
Just heard about this; they had proper documents.
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