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Egypt Says It Seizes US-Made Missiles Near Gaza

hypocritexposer

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By ASHRAF SWEILAM Associated Press
EL-ARISH, Egypt January 4, 2013 (AP)

Egyptian authorities seized six U.S.-made missiles in the Sinai Peninsula Friday that security officials said were likely smuggled from Libya and bound for the Gaza Strip.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypt-seizes-us-made-missiles-gaza-18131644#.UOcpN3f-L1V
 

Steve

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maybe someone should be asking why US anti tank and aircraft missiles were in Libya to begin with.. ?

because by my recollection our government was never authorized to give or sell them weapons..



WASHINGTON — The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and foreign diplomats.

The Obama administration clearly was worried about the consequences of its hidden hand in helping arm Libyan militants, concerns that have not previously been reported.

The United States, which had only small numbers of C.I.A. officers in Libya during the tumult of the rebellion, provided little oversight of the arms shipments.

During the frantic early months of the Libyan rebellion, various players motivated by politics or profit — including an American arms dealer who proposed weapons transfers in an e-mail exchange with a United States emissary later killed in Benghazi — sought to aid those trying to oust Colonel Qaddafi.

The administration has never determined where all of the weapons, paid for by Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, went inside Libya, officials said. Qatar is believed to have shipped by air and sea small arms, including machine guns, automatic rifles, and ammunition, for which it has demanded reimbursement from Libya’s new government. Some of the arms since have been moved from Libya to militants with ties to Al Qaeda in Mali, where radical jihadi factions have imposed Shariah law in the northern part of the country, the former Defense Department official said. Others have gone to Syria, according to several American and foreign officials and arms traders.

After discussions among members of the National Security Council, the Obama administration backed the arms shipments from both countries, according to two former administration officials briefed on the talks.

American officials say that the United Arab Emirates first approached the Obama administration during the early months of the Libyan uprising, asking for permission to ship American-built weapons that the United States had supplied for the emirates’ use. The administration rejected that request, but instead urged the emirates to ship weapons to Libya that could not be traced to the United States.

“The U.A.E. was asking for clearance to send U.S. weapons,” said one former official. “We told them it’s O.K. to ship other weapons.”

The American support for the arms shipments from Qatar and the emirates could not be completely hidden. NATO air and sea forces around Libya had to be alerted not to interdict the cargo planes and freighters transporting the arms into Libya from Qatar and the emirates, American officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/world/africa/weapons-sent-to-libyan-rebels-with-us-approval-fell-into-islamist-hands.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0


as this mess spills open,.. one can understand why Clinton suddenly has a bad case of middle-eastern flu..
 

Whitewing

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Well, at least being the strict Constitutionalist that he is, Obama when to the US Congress before making any military moves in Libya.

Imagine the howls from the left if he hadn't.
 

Whitewing

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The administration rejected that request, but instead urged the emirates to ship weapons to Libya that could not be traced to the United States.

The Obama admin's ME version of Fast & Furious.....Treachery & Tabule.
 
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Anonymous

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I have long said we should get out of all those countries.......

But I have to chuckle at this group of cultist followers here now that whine, moan, and groan as this is something new the US has done-- and want to put all blame on the current administration- like it has never happened before...

How many whined back when the US government/CIA funneled arms to Vietnam-- to Nicaraugua- TOW missiles to Iran (remember the Iran/Contra affair and the Arms for Hostages deal)-- to Saddam (which some claim included the chemical weapons he later used on the Iranians and his own people)-- stingers, TOWS, etc. we supplied to Al Quaeda and the Taliban (which they have turned around and used on US/Allied troops)- etc. etc. etc. :???:

Did all you folks beech about it back then-- or did you backslap the nationbuilding hawks we have followed for years... :???:
 

jigs

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your ignorance is so funny OT..... you are the dumbest fool I ever heard...you are so blinded by Obama that you cum in your pants at the very idea of him.... what an ignorant ass you are...no wonder the guys at the coffee shop laugh at you so much.
 

Whitewing

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Oldtimer said:
I have long said we should get out of all those countries.......

But I have to chuckle at this group of cultist followers here now that whine, moan, and groan as this is something new the US has done-- and want to put all blame on the current administration- like it has never happened before...

How many whined back when the US government/CIA funneled arms to Vietnam-- to Nicaraugua- TOW missiles to Iran (remember the Iran/Contra affair and the Arms for Hostages deal)-- to Saddam (which some claim included the chemical weapons he later used on the Iranians and his own people)-- stingers, TOWS, etc. we supplied to Al Quaeda and the Taliban (which they have turned around and used on US/Allied troops)- etc. etc. etc. :???:

Did all you folks beech about it back then-- or did you backslap the nationbuilding hawks we have followed for years... :???:

Translation from a toe-tag liberal = two wrongs make a right.

:roll:

How's that Hope & Change workin' out for ya OT? :lol:
 

Steve

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and groan as this is something new the US has done-- and want to put all blame on the current administration- like it has never happened before...

wrong is wrong.. the decade or year it is doesn't change that...

if you check back you will see clearly where i was outraged that we didn't bomb the ammo and weapons depots..

and checking back further you would see that I was no fan of getting involved in Afghanistan way back then..

it was by far the stupidest move Carter ever made that Reagan escalated...

knowing what we know now we should have shipped weapons to Prussia instead,.. it would have been a better bet.. (and about as safe as betting on last years superbowl :LOL: )

now getting back on topic..

arming radical muslims is stupid... and anyone who does it today understanding how the past conflicts have ended is plain dumb and dangerous..

aren't you glad you voted for that idiot?
 

Whitewing

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This is why I say that OT has a reading comprehension problem.

These subjects seem to whooooosh right over his fat little head.

OT, the point of these stories is that guys like YOU, your koolaid drinking liberal donk brothers, and even your Messiah, all bitched about what R presidents did in the past and yet you ALL sit SILENT when your guy turns around and does the same damned thing.

You guys are the ultimate cultists.
 
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