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To: LindyBill who wrote (516320)10/24/2012 2:23:54 AM
From: unclewest4 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793916
 
Obama shipping manpads to jihadists? I don't think so.


The issue is - Someone is shipping quantities of weapons including SA-7 manpads to Islamists.
An earlier report indicated this ship was loaded in Iran.

From the article -

Fox News has chronicled how the Al Entisar, a Libyan-flagged vessel carrying 400 tons of cargo, docked on Sept. 6 in the Turkish port of Iskenderun. It reportedly supplied both humanitarian assistance and arms — including deadly SA-7 man-portable surface-to-air missiles — apparently destined for Islamists, again including al Qaeda elements, in Syria.

What cries out for further investigation — and debate in the remaining days of this presidential election — is whether this shipment was part of a larger covert Obama effort to transfer weapons to our enemies that could make the Iran-Contra scandal, to say nothing of Operation Fast and Furious, pale by comparison.

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