This should scare the ever-loving bejeebers out of us all.
While we’ve been busy bombing the cr@p out of Libya, approximately 20,000 (that’s right, twenty thousand) man-portable heat-seeking surface to air missiles have gone missing.
The White House announced today it planned to expand a program to secure and destroy Libya’s huge stockpile of dangerous surface-to-air missiles, following an ABC News report that large numbers of them continue to be stolen from unguarded military warehouses.
There go the horses! Someone shut the barn door! But don’t worry we have our best guy on it!
Currently the U.S. State Department has one official on the ground in Libya, as well as five contractors who specialize in “explosive ordinance disposal”, all working with the rebel Transitional National Council to find the looted missiles, White House spokesperson Jay Carney told reporters. [emph. mine]
The system worked!
Though Libya had an estimated 20,000 man-portable surface-to-air missiles before the popular uprising began in February, Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro told ABC News today the government does not have a clear picture of how many missiles they’re trying to track down.
“We’re making great progress and we expect in the coming days and weeks we will have a much greater picture of how many are missing,” Shapiro said. [emph. mine]
We don’t even have a clue of how many are missing, except in the grossest of estimates.
This has been known about for weeks now, but it’s unclear how much has actually been done to stop or at least ameliorate the problem.
Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch first warned about the problem after a trip to Libya six months ago. He took pictures of pickup truckloads of the missiles being carted off during another trip just a few weeks ago.
“I myself could have removed several hundred if I wanted to, and people can literally drive up with pickup trucks or even 18 wheelers and take away whatever they want,” said Bouckaert, HRW’s emergencies director. “Every time I arrive at one of these weapons facilities, the first thing we notice going missing is the surface-to-air missiles.” [emph. mine]
It’s not clear exactly what missiles are missing, but they are likely to be similar to (or actually are) the Russian-built 9K38 Igla (NATO designation SA-18 Grouse).
They’re not very big, but can really do a number on a soft target like a civilian airliner. Due to their size, they are relatively easy to smuggle into a country and once over the border would be almost impossible to find.
20,000 of these out in the wild is a nightmare scenario. It would only take two or three actual uses to bring civil aviation to a standstill anywhere even remotely near where they were used. If the bad guys were to then publish pictures of an arsenal of tens of them, civil aviation would be effectively ended.
Meanwhile, TSA is spending its time asking us our name to make sure we memorized our driver licenses, confiscating our bottles of soda or water, making sure we have nothing but lint in our pockets, and taking 5 minutes to x-ray a suitcase.
Sounds like the goal of all that would be to reduce the number of secondary explosions when an airliner is shot down while taking off from LAX, Dulles, Frankfurt, Sheremetyevo, Newark, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Atlanta, Houston, JFK, Paris, Chicago…
No more nightly body counts from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars because the prOpObamaganda media would never mention the W word while their Demigod is in office.–Wars? What wars? No more war protests from the faithful Obumma sheeple because an Obumma sponsored war is a good war 20,000 SAMs missing in a war Obumma started–Who cares? Fast and furious gun… Read more »
I’m ok with that.
Dude’s an enemy combatant in a war zone. As such, he’s a legitimate target.
Whack him.
Amazing Technology: Watch an Armored Combat Vehicle Go…‘Invisible’
Muslim High School Student Remains True to Islamic Modesty Code — Even on the Soccer Field
Good for Serene (the girl mentioned).
The tranny comments today are too funny.
Pentagon OKs gay ‘weddings’ on bases
So much for enforcing DOMA. I wonder what Louis Farrakhan or Rev. Wright think about this?
#9;
Now there’s a twist of fate. 🙂
Hamous #4;
That was one fine looking boy when the lesbians adopted him at the age of two.
El gordo #3;
Shhhhhhhhhhhh. {I like my vehicle.}
Both fossils and Native American tools have turned up at Lake Whitney. You have to go back at least 20 years since anyone has seen the formerly remote underwater caverns that have been exposed by the historic drought. For some visitors it has been exciting and new. But for others it has been a lesson in criminal law. It’s against… Read more »
I can think of a few people who tempt fate like this…
Gotta love this city council candidate’s sense of humor with this headline in his press release:
You are here: Home / Harris County / Press Release: Parker Afraid of Dick
Press Release: Parker Afraid of Dick
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#81 Pyro: I don’t think it will be quite that organized. Ifn you take the time to find a wall, he might escape and we just can’t take that chance, shoot on sight is a far superior option. Treat him just like the allies treated the SS whenever they were caught.
Jones et al. are the type of people who are the first to be lined up against the wall when the revolution comes.
#78 – bone
There may well be an American Fall soon, but it won’t be what Van Jones or any of his bolshie buddies think it will be. It’ll be more of a collapse and he’ll find out that there isn’t enough of anything to support his visions.
#78 – This is yet another OXYGEN THIEF who’s name I refuse to even type much less post……………………that YoYo would need a billion dollar upgrade just to acheive:
What A Maroon! status
This guy really gives me the creeps. Van Jones: “We are going to build a progressive counterbalance to the tea party. Eighty percent of Americans agree with everything that you say on this show, but we have no voice. We know that jobs are more important, and this phony, made-up deficit stuff they talk about. We know that people who… Read more »
AND Dick Dowling
Sorta gives a whole new meaning to Chesty Puller.
OK;
Its prolly time we should stop being mean to the Transgender troops. I’m sure that in 50 years, our children will have new Heroines to look up to. Soon there will be names like
Georgia Patton
Wilhelmina Wallace
and
Audrey Murphy
As if anyone cared what “Buckwheat” had to say,…Cain’s “Brainwashed” Remark Was “Racist, Bigoted”
#70 Mharper
I saw that same picture a few nights ago. Yep, it scared the crap outta me, too.
“Do these BDUs make me look fat in all the right places?”
Hey, I finally figured out how to bypass my company’s security ban on embedded links. See if #70 works for you…
This pic is not what you think…
“Did you see that new prisoner? He must be from Hunkistan.”
“No, I think I’ll just hang out here for awhile and watch the rest of the guys get their physicals.”
Queens, queers, and trannies
Something for everyone
Be all you can be
“These BDU’s are kinda baggy. Do you have another cut? Maybe a nice belt I can use to cinch them up a little?”
Maybe having transexuals in the US military will make Muslim jihadists’ heads explode?
“Ooooooo, I’m gonna do ballroom dancing for my PT requirement.”
“So, you don’t like the pink rhinestones I added to the uniform, Major??”
#25 OTL
I don’t think Obammy’s thin skin and fragile ego will let him bow out.
There once was a jarhead named Billy, Who thought the whole gay thing so silly, Until came the day, One came his way, And offered to fully wax up his willy. There once was a sailor named Dex, Who was slightly confused about sex, ‘Til a sailor came on, Her name was Don, Now Dex follows a new set of… Read more »
I’m getting a horrible case of ‘helmet hair’!
The aftermath of the barrage was horrendous. One man was heard shouting “Get this man a medic, he’s been hit in the legs!” Another was screaming “Get me a beautician, you should see my nails!”
“This foxhole is small but excitingly intimate.”
“The lighting is sooooo poor in these latrines and there are no outlets for curling irons!!”
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Drab ships and planes to be repainted with a lively rainbow motif.
#53 Pyro: The glaring inconsistencies, the picking of winners and losers is blinding me.
#45 bone Somebody making $50 million a year playing baseball, his taxes won’t change. Make $50 million a year appearing on television, his income won’t change. But, if they make a lot of money and pay a very low tax rate, like me, it would be changed by a minimum tax that would only bring them up to what other… Read more »
How long before the “sexually confused” trannies insist that the military pay for their torque converter swap out?
Basic Tranning:
Courses will consist of:
“One Mile Run Like a Girl”
“Obstetrics Course”
“Basic Marksgirlship”
“Bayonet Heels Practice”
“Sexual Orienteering”
Isn’t one of the lines uttered by all Marine DI’s something like “Alright ladies, drop and give me twenty”?
It’ll just be more true now.
If one is driving the truck…
Watergate didn’t have a body count. Gunwalker has hundreds.
Isn’t a trannie that thing that has a stick coming out of it that you move with your hands? Oh, wait, never mind.
#43 M42: I could live with that easily. The prebate thing is just to pacify the progressives claim that the tax is regressive.
Simply apply the NRStax to the things that now have a sales tax and not to those that do not, that will minimize paperwork and compliance costs and complexity.
Warren Buffet delivers a “KMA” to ZERO.
Ifn this wiss-wad Buffet, weren’t such a hypocrite he would have settled a decade old tax suit with the IRS. Buffet has no more credibility.
“All Trannies on deck!!”