A stunning story out of Egypt on Friday (HT: Jonathan Schanzer at FDD) after a raid in northern Sinai uncovered a cache of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles bound for Hamas-controlled Gaza. The discovery was made in Be’r al-Hefn near Arish in an area known as a transit point for materials headed for the smuggling tunnels running from Sinai into Gaza.
The most remarkable part of the story is that the missiles were American-made, arriving from Libya according to multiple reports.
Egypt Independent reported:
The North Sinai Security Director seized a shipment of advanced anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles at dawn on Friday.
The directorate received a tip that the missiles were being secretly stored in a repository in Be’r al-Hefn — just south of Arish, the capital of North Sinai — and would be smuggled through tunnels to the Gaza Strip, said a security source.
After informing the Interior Ministry in Cairo, two assistants to the interior minster led a large formation of police in a raid on the area. Be’r al-Hefn has often been used as an illegal storage area for explosives and weapons.
“With the help of secret informants, the police found the storage site, where they found six US-made advanced missiles inside large holes in the ground [that were waiting to be] smuggled to the Gaza Strip through tunnels,” the source said.
He said the shipment likely originated in Libya, and that the range of the rockets was 2 km.
That US-made weapons are finding their way from Libya should be of grave concern for American security officials. Presumably these are weapons provided by the Obama administration to the Libyan rebels in their fight against Gaddafi in 2011.
US weapons have also made their way to Syria via Libya with active US assistance according to reports. In October, Russia accused the US of sending Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, a claim that Defense Secretary Panetta denied.
Back in August I noted here at PJ Media the New York Times caught scrubbing one of its stories of any mention of CIA funneling arms to the Syrian rebels.
This is not the first time that US missiles have been bound for Gaza and Hamas. During Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in January 2009, Hamas attempted to use American-made Stinger missiles they had acquired against Israel’s AH-64 ‘Apache’ helicopters to no effect since the weapons system identified the Israeli aircraft as friendly.
A Maan News Agency report on yesterday’s raid noted that authorities had recovered 17 French missiles several weeks ago in the same area.
So who will ask the question, whats the tie-back to Benghazi!? and there sure as hell is one!
Some enterprising reporter want to ask the Turks? oops we have no honest enterprising reporters anymore? — paging Chet Huntley or Bob Trout, or Eric Sevareid or Bill Safire or Frank Borman or Peter Jennings -oh crap whats the use! the real reporters are all deceased. Still maybe some one will attempt!
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When they begin showing up in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas should we worry? Nah, just some of b.INSANE obama’s muslim brotherhood bro’s starting their own little “Arab Spring” here. Hell, he’ll give them EBT cards and section 8 vouchers to help them out.
So, “crazy” ol’ Glenn Beck was probably right. The whole Benghazi debacle was a weapons deal gone bad: Stevens was the point man, and when they saw that Gadhafi was about to fall, they needed to get the weapons back. But then something went wrong.
These are the overseas equivalent of free Obama Phones.
One program was for buying the voters needed to capture power at home and continue political attacks on Israel, while the free missile distribution program was for buying off the terrorists to capture power in Syria and directly attack Israel.
What does the U.S. government have to do to convince the rest of the world and the duped American public that the snakes running things hand out guns and bombs to all sides to divide and conquer? That’s why Eric Holder the Attorney General got caught giving guns and bombs to the drug cartels. The unAmerican filth are attempting to conquer the American people as well.
I’m sorry to report to the other people of the planet. You all need to realize there are a few thousand rogues who have secretly commandeered the United States government. Please don’t hold the American people as a whole responsible for the crimes committed by these pieces of filth currently in charge. It’s incredible how many poisons the traitors put in the food, drink, air, medicine, etc. here in America rendering most too sick and mentally compromised to think clearly. They are victims too.
There is a chance that as the scum implode the American economy the public at large will not have the cash to purchase the usual poisons like aspartame soda pops. I’m hoping we have a small window where the American public, no longer poisoned, will awake from their comas. Then we’ll deal with our problem here in America that has been ruining so much of the rest of the planet.