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FirstQuaker -> RE: As Many As 20,000 SAMS In Libya Unacounted For (9/12/2011 7:36:07 AM)
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Most the little SAMs are the anti-aircraft equal of a sawn off shotgun, good at close range and that is it. The more modern ones like Blair was selling him are the ones to worry about, but they are larger and need some support equipment to reach out and hit jets at a distance.
I would be more worried about some of the other toys making their way into the terrorist supermarkets, KDaffy had a lot of naval equipment, especially mines and torpedoes. They have caught up with jihadi plotting to torpedo shipping in the Singapore area, and it would only take one mine in the Thames estuary, or the Saint Lawrence seaway to cause havoc.
Then there are land mines and regular military rocketry, most people don't realize you don't need a pretty launcher for a military rocket, especially if all you want to do is create havoc with one, most are electrically fired and go the direction they were pointed when they are lit off. The Iraqi insurgents, for instance would take 122 mm rockets and point them at the Green Zone and let fly.
But as the matter stands Libyan was awash in weaponry, and much of it is free for the taking right now -
Gaddafi's Abandoned Arsenals Raise Libya's Terror Threat
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Stockpiles of old Soviet artillery shells and land mines gave Iraqis enough car bombs, roadside bombs and suicide vests to run an eight-year insurgency that has killed thousands of Americans and many tens of thousands of Iraqis. "If you just take one of these, you have a car bomb," Bouckaert says, pointing to a box containing 130-mm antitank shells. There are hundreds more stacked in the same room.
A nearby sandy lot holds thousands more antipersonnel and antitank mines, with trip-wire triggers to rig booby traps already available nearby. Hundreds of such stockpiles have been located across Libya. Human Rights Watch found some 60 weapons warehouses in the eastern city of Ajdabiyah alone, all of them looted. "The storage facilities we found in Iraq were minuscule compared to what we're finding here," says Bouckaert.
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