Obama's Blunder: Missing Libyan Surface to Air Missiles
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on
DickMorris.com on September 27, 2011
For twenty years – long before 9/11 – the danger of terrorists armed
with surface to air missiles shooting at passenger planes has been the
secret fear of many top political leaders. In the late 90s, a
terrorist network was nabbed trying to bring them into Newark Airport,
but the airline industry and the government have done nothing to equip
passenger airplanes with any defense against these always deadly
missiles.
Now Barack Obama has committed the ultimate sin: He has let 20,000
surface-to-air missiles escape from military depots in Libya.
According to ABC News “U.S. officials had once thought there was little
chance that terrorists could get their hands on many of the portable
surface-to-air missiles that can bring down a commercial jet liner.
But now that calculation is out the window, with officials at a recent
secret White House meeting reporting that thousands of them have gone
missing in Libya.” An estimated 20,000 of these “portable,
heat-seeking missiles have gone missing from unguarded Army weapons
warehouses.”
Senator Barbara Boxer, of the Senate’s Commerce, Energy, and
Transportation Committee said that “matching up a terrorist with a
shoulder-fired missile, that’s our worst nightmare.
And now, thanks to Obama’s carelessness and his unnecessary decision to
intervene in Libya, it may be our future reality.
ABC News describes the missing missiles as “four to six-feet long and
Russian-made, [they] can weight just 55 pounds with launcher.”
They are accurate within a range of more than two miles. That a
terrorist could sit on a boat off JFK airport and shoot down a passenger
plane as it ascends could now be a real possibility.
In the Iraq War, during the run-up to the 2004 election, there were
reports of unguarded US military depots from which insurgents allegedly
stole thousands of explosives. The story broke in the week before
the election and Kerry took down all his other ads and focused on this
issue, first reported in the New York Times. By Election Day, it
was proven that the report was bogus, adding to Kerry’s woes. Now,
faced with this massive blunder and security threat, we hear nothing but
the sounds of silence from any of the mainstream media except, to its
immense credit, ABC News.
We need to assign a top priority to hunting down these missiles.
In Afghanistan, our troops jumped through hoops to corral all the
Stinger Missiles left over from the Russian War. This potential
leak of these dangerous weapons is vastly more threatening. Obama
needs to face this issue squarely and publicly. And we all need to
learn the cost we may pay from having elected a rank amateur as
president.
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