Monday - August 05, 2013

Wonder Where That Came From???

A bit lost in the shuffle is the fact that when the Egyptian Army threw out Morsi, the very first thing they did was shut down the border with Gaza. Sealed. Crushed the tunnels, closed the crossing points. And Hamas, which is really big in Gaza, is suffering.

Yeah, how awful that Egypt is having a step backwards on the road to a democratic government. IMO, let the army kill all the terrorists and all the Muslim Brotherhood (long a thorn in the side over there) and a whole crapload of radical imams, and then go play the democracy game.

But in the mean time ...

Egypt claims jihadists fired US Hellfire missile at government office

Jihadists in Egypt’s lawless Sinai Peninsula are using U.S. weapons to carry out attacks against the temporary government in the wake of the military’s ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, according to the embattled nation’s Interior Ministry.

The government office posted an official statement on its Facebook page along with images of an exploded missile that hit the third floor of a building in the city of el-Arish last week. The post said terrorist forces targeted the North Sinai Security Directorate office with a ballistic missile that struck the third floor facade of the building, leaving three soldiers injured. While attacks in the Sinai, which borders Gaza and is a haven for terrorist activity, have become commonplace, the prospect that militants have U.S. weapons typically fired from helicopters at their disposal is especially alarming.

Three photos of the missile posted by the government agency shows that it appears to be an AGM-114F with a label written in English and the letters “U.S.” stenciled on the side.

Gak. As bad as journalists and guns ... they never get it right. The little Hellfire is a “ballistic missile” only in that if you fire it upwards, eventually it will come down. It’s not AT ALL an ICBM, one of those globe spanning MIRV nukes we used to worry about during the Cold War. That’s what we think of when we hear “ballistic missile”. It’s a tiny little thing which only weighs 100 lb or so.

Reports of U.S.-made weapons turning up in the Sinai date back to at least January, when six U.S.-made missiles were found in a cache of weapons bound for Gaza. And in February, FoxNews.com reported exclusively that weapons left over from the revolution in Libya were being sold at clandestine auctions is the Sinai Peninsula. The U.S. has repeatedly denied arming the Libyan rebels, though it did assist them in other ways with the overthrow of longtime Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi.

Riiight. We all know about that. No arms at all, especially not those 20,000 MANPADS gone missing. Or that those AQ-leaning Tauregs fighting for hire in Libya somehow picked up enough arms to allow them to go and take over Mali. No, nothing to see here, move along.

Hellfire missiles in the hands of jihadis? Shit. It’s only a matter of time until airliners start falling from the sky like autumn leaves. 

Posted by Drew458     on 08/05/2013 at 03:51 PM   
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