Imagine those puppies getting smuggled to terrorists inside the US. RPGs hitting gas storage depots, SAMs shooting down planes at our airports...
I have real bad news.
Many of our top security experts believe the weapons you fear are already here.
New York Times
Saturday, January 12, 2002
Report Says Iran Gave Terrorists U.S. Arms
Iran purchased American-built Stinger antiaircraft missiles in Afghanistan in 1994 and turned them over to a Lebanese-based terrorist organization, but the missiles proved to be defective, according to United States intelligence reports.
twa800.com;
Aug. 13 — A Briton accused of plotting to smuggle and sell a shoulder-launched missile that could shoot down a commercial airliner hoped to sell perhaps 50 such missiles, a federal prosecutor said today.
abcnews.go.com;
Some think the SA-7 may already be here...they are readily available in the world.
The much more deadly SA-18 affectionately called the needle is more difficult to come by...but the street says they are available. This is the weapon we arrested the Brit for trying to bring them into the US.
-In April 2002 at a hotel in New Jersey, Lakhani and the informant discussed various models of shoulder-fired missiles. The informant said he wanted them for "jihad" and to shoot down a plane. Lakhani confirmed he would work with the witness and asked if the witness wanted as many as 200 missiles. The witness says he just wants one to start.
-On Aug. 20, 2002, Lakhani faxed to the witness in New Jersey a document listing a price for the Igla (SA-18) missile and launcher device. In October 2002, the price was put at $85,000, with a down payment of $30,000.
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Washington Post
September 25, 2001
Pg. 15
Land Mines, Aging Missiles Pose Threat
Equipment Left Over From Soviet War Could Endanger U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
By Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post Staff Writer
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia still possesses dozens of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles left from the 1979-1989 war against the Soviet Union
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