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2013-08-13 Home Front: WoT

Attorney For Whistleblower: 400 U.S. Missiles Stolen In Benghazi

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Posted by trailing wife 2013-08-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "They [intelligence community] are worried, specifically according to these sources, about an attempt to shoot down an airliner," he claimed.

No, they [intelligence community and regime] are not worried about a shoot down. They're worried about DISCOVERY !

MailonLine article, same subject.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-13 07:09|| 2013-08-13 07:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Could any of this be responsible for the recent chill between Vlad and the Champ? Was a "stand down" given as a result of a 'wave off' from the Russians? Do the Russians now have the MANPADS ?

examiner.com excerpt:

Did this American meddling in Syria unhinge Russia’s patience? And is it possible that Russians or their surrogates assisted al-Qaeda in the Benghazi consulate attack?

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-13 07:58|| 2013-08-13 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm gonna call "caution" on "U.S. missiles". Sounds morelike journalistic laziness and amateurism.

Not saying there weren't MANPADS involved. To me "U.S. missiles" are Stingers and such.
Also, there are a few other theories or rather, allegations in the mix. I don't strongly subscribe to any of them at this point. And the list of possible suspects hasn't changed. I'm still working on a couple more articles on these.

Problem is that information is now flowing fast and furious (no pun intended.)

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-13 10:29|| 2013-08-13 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 A prudent word of caution Pappy, but it wouldn't be as if it's not been done before, with predictably negative impacts on the bear.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-13 10:32|| 2013-08-13 10:32|| Front Page Top

#5 No, it wouldn't be, meneer.

The way I'm seeing it is that it could fall out one of several ways.

1. The USG is covering-up or performing damage control for an operation or series of operations by an agency or combination of agencies with a possible range of legal... complications.

2. The actor(s) involved in the attack are ones that the USG doesn't (or didn't at the time) want to confront for various reasons.

3. The USG botched a response to the attack due to agency compartmentalization, intel failure, risk-management failure, response-asset failure, 'amateur hour' at the command level(s), or political expediency.

4. A combination of any or all of the above

Legal fallout is possible for one or two of them.

Political fallout is guaranteed on all four.

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-13 12:59|| 2013-08-13 12:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Pappy, thank you for staying on point.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2013-08-13 17:49|| 2013-08-13 17:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Someone has got to ask - 400?

Something doesn't compute.

Even when the Soviets where in full force in Afghanistan, my estimate is far lower than that provided the resistance and the Syrian air capability is much less to be addressed than what the Soviets had in theater.

If we're dealing with 400, at best those are Libyan procured Russian SA-7s that were warehoused locally.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-08-13 19:22|| 2013-08-13 19:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Vladvedev = RUSSIA has always claimed the Bammer Admin = USA was arming the Libyan, + now Syrian Rebels.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-08-13 19:30|| 2013-08-13 19:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe they needed a figure to account for all the rockets they wasted, (Or never existed, except on paper)It's a nice round figure.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-08-13 21:54|| 2013-08-13 21:54|| Front Page Top

#10 That too is possible. Then again it could have been more than that and the stocks were being destroyed and 400 were left when the attack came.

There is no publicly available data on the Qadaffi government's missile stocks. It could also be that stocks came from the black-market with the weapons sourced from places like the Balkans or Albania, or former Soviet Republics such as Ukraine, Bulgaria, and any of the 'stans.

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-13 22:06|| 2013-08-13 22:06|| Front Page Top

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