al-Qaida in Syria about to get MANPADS

[Warlord]

http://cdn.historycommons.org/images/events/436_stinger_missile2050081722-9880.jpg

AFP - Saudi Arabia plans to supply the Syrian opposition with anti-aircraft missiles to counter President Bashar al-Assad's air force, German news weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday.

The article, citing a classified report received by the German foreign intelligence service and the German government last week, said Riyadh was looking at sending European-made Mistral-class MANPADS, or man-portable air-defence systems.

Der Spiegel noted the shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles can target low-flying aircraft including helicopters and had given mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan a decisive edge against Soviet troops in the 1980s.

Saudi Arabia is a key supporter of the Syrian rebels and has long advocated providing them with better weaponry.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130616-saudi-arabia-wants-missiles-syrian-rebels-report

[Warlord]

Looks like they've got their first shipment from Obama and the CIA:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2013/6/15/1371314586594/The-anti-aircraft-missile-010.jpg

This group is a Chechen dominated foreign jihadist group.

Curious considering the Boston bombers were of Chechen origin.

More details:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/16/syrian-jihadists-anti-aircraft-missiles-video

[UWDude]

LoL

MANPADS only work against jets/helicopters etc.
Hezbollah and the Syrian army are on a roll on the ground.
If they surround some of these opposition and al musra fighters who have MANPADS, then Syria and Hazbollah gets MANPADS.

This shipment of weapons is the desperate attempt of a foreign backer to prop up a failed foreign insurrection. If it doesn't turn the tide of the war, it makes things worse.

It is hilarious to watch these fools double down on failure, ensuring an even greater failure of their own.

Even more hilarious, when al musra is defeated, its members will go home, and dream up which new jihad they will join, with their new MANPADS they never used against Syria.

ROTFLMAO

It's just so pathetic to watch these strategic blunders.

[enhanced_deficit]

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AFP - Saudi Arabia plans to supply the Syrian opposition with anti-aircraft missiles to counter President Bashar al-Assad's air force, German news weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday.

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Are they doing this with blessing of Obama pup masters? How will saudi dictatorship regime make sure that these will stay with Al Qaeda in Syria and will not be shared with Al qaeda in Afghanistan/Iraq/New York etc?

U.S. helicopter shot down in Afghanistan - Wardak Helicopter Crash ... (http://www.stripes.com/news/wardak-helicopter-crash/u-s-helicopter-shot-down-in-afghanistan-7.112748)www.stripes.com (http://www.stripes.com) › News (http://www.stripes.com/news) › Wardak Helicopter Crash (http://www.stripes.com/news/wardak-helicopter-crash)‎
Video: Cramming sessions begin with Afghan troops ... From the air, Sangin district looks like two planets merged: One a seemingly lifeless landscape, the other ...

Video appears to depict plane crash in Afghanistan - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/world/asia/afghanistan-bagram-crash-video)
www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/world/asia/ (http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/world/asia/)afghanistan-bagram-crash-video
May 2, 2013 – The crash of a cargo plane that killed all seven crew members Monday in ... shot down the aircraft and that "several foreign soldiers were killed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynyoFYln1N0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMmOk0rS0sw


Is Obama team playing with fire here by supporting weaponizing of terrorists?

[UWDude]

Are they doing this with blessing of Obama pup masters? How will saudi dictatorship regime make sure that these will stay with Al Qaeda in Syria and will not be shared with Al qaeda in Afghanistan/Iraq/New York etc?

U.S. helicopter shot down in Afghanistan - Wardak Helicopter Crash ... (http://www.stripes.com/news/wardak-helicopter-crash/u-s-helicopter-shot-down-in-afghanistan-7.112748)www.stripes.com (http://www.stripes.com) › News (http://www.stripes.com/news) › Wardak Helicopter Crash (http://www.stripes.com/news/wardak-helicopter-crash)‎
Video: Cramming sessions begin with Afghan troops ... From the air, Sangin district looks like two planets merged: One a seemingly lifeless landscape, the other ...

Video appears to depict plane crash in Afghanistan - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/world/asia/afghanistan-bagram-crash-video)
www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/world/asia/ (http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/world/asia/)afghanistan-bagram-crash-video
May 2, 2013 – The crash of a cargo plane that killed all seven crew members Monday in ... shot down the aircraft and that "several foreign soldiers were killed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynyoFYln1N0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMmOk0rS0sw


Is Obama team playing with fire here by supporting weaponizing of terrorists?

The shot down apache footage is fake in so many ways, it's not even funny.
The cargo plane had a cargo shift, which pulled its tail down, it was not shot down.

[enhanced_deficit]

The Star and Stripes report is confirmed. But main point I was trying to make was that such "manpad" weapons given to Al Qaeda linked militants in Syria could turn up at other places.

Youtube clip picked in hurry but there have been various other reports.

SEAL Team Four commander 'commits suicide' in Afghanistan | Mail ... (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252660/SEAL-Team-Four-commander-commits-suicide-Afghanistan.html)www.dailymail.co.uk/.../SEAL-Team-Four-commander-commits-suicide-A...
Dec 23, 2012 – SEAL Teams Six and Ten were involved in those operations. ... Team Six, were killed when their Chinook helicopter was shot down by Taliban fighters. ......

[Elias Graves]

Manpads. For some reason, this came to mind.

http://c3.soap.com/images/products/p/kc/kc-496_1z.jpg

[juleswin]

Can MANPADS be used to behead defenseless civilians? If not then terrorists wont have any use for it

[HOLLYWOOD]

ALL you need to know... MISSING LIBYAN MANPADS
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120412/DEFREG04/304120002/5-000-Libyan-MANPADS-Secured

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FNeRv-MRLE5,000 Libyan MANPADS Secured

Some May Have Been Smuggled Out


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A team of weapons experts has been unable to rule out the possibility that a number of man-operated portable weapons secured from Libya may have leaked out of the country or been acquired by terrorists. (Mahmud Turkia / Agence France-Presse)


LONDON — A multinational team of weapons experts has secured and destroyed 5,000 Libyan man-operated portable air defense systems and components left over after the fall of the Gadhafi regime, according to the British Ministry of Defence. The team has been unable to rule out the possibility that a number of the weapons may have leaked out of the country or been acquired by terrorists.
“The team has concluded that most remaining MANPADS are likely to be under the control of regional military councils and militias,” the British said, adding that they were helping fund the Libyan authorities and the U.N. implementation of a disarmament, demobilization and reintegration program to bring the remaining systems back under the control of the central government.
A joint military-civilian team made up of U.K., French, U.S. and Libyan personnel have been in country since last August helping to track down the large numbers of weapons left by Gadhafi’s regime.
The U.S. government estimates Gadhafi’s forces had about 20,000 MANPADS in their armory at the time of the regime’s collapse, raising fears that the weapons could fall into the hands of terrorist organizations.
The British MoD said in a statement released April 12 that thousands of the weapons had been destroyed during the conflict, and that inspections of more than 1,600 ammunition bunkers had “identified, secluded, disabled or confirmed as destroyed 5,000 components and complete systems.”
The MoD was unable to give a breakdown of weapon types found, but they are likely to be mainly Russian-built SA-7 Grail missiles.