Air Serbia: Hellfire Missiles Headed to Portland, Ore., Found on Flight , Serbian Media Says

[Thor]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016...?smid=fb-share

Serbia: US-Bound Combat Missiles Found on Passenger Flight

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MARCH 13, 2016, 12:18 P.M. E.D.T.

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia's authorities are investigating reports that a cargo package bound for the U.S. containing two missiles with explosive warheads was found on a passenger flight from Lebanon to Serbia.

N1 television said the package with two guided armor-piercing missiles was discovered Saturday by a sniffer dog after an Air Serbia flight from Beirut landed at Belgrade airport.

Serbian media say documents listed the final destination for the AGM-114 Hellfire missiles as Portland, Oregon. The American-made projectiles can be fired from air, sea or ground platforms.

N1 reported Sunday that Air Serbia is helping in the investigation. The Serbian flag carrier says "security and safety are the main priorities for Air Serbia."

Interesting comments from someone on FB:

"Portland, Oregon. This is no longer something that's happening 'over there'... *points in some nebulous Middle East direction* ...it is now coming here. But you Bernie supporters and dumbass Millennials are so worried about 'hate speech' that you'd be perfectly happy to allow jihadists to invade us...meanwhile you encourage violent racism in the form of Black Lives Matter swarms, intimidating rally attendees, blocking ambulances, firing guns into the air...yet you are blind to your own flagrant hypocrisy. You're going to get us all killed."

[Chester Copperpot]

if i was a terrorist, Oregon is exactly the place Id come into the country from... 1,400 miles of unguarded desolate coastline..

[puppetmaster]

Set up by the senator from San Francisco and his gang of FBI agents.

[phill4paul]

I really don't see the purpose in finding these weapons, seizing them and then telling the world. Wouldn't it have made more sense to inform American "authorities", surveil the "package" and then pick up whoever claims the "package?"

[presence]

Lebanon: Missiles on Serbian flight were for training

CNBC-26 minutes ago
The Lebanese army says two missiles found on a passenger flight from ... destination for the AGM-114 Hellfire missiles as Portland, Oregon.

Bomb-sniffing dog discovers 2 Hellfire missiles bound for Portland
OregonLive.com-17 hours ago
Two Hellfire Missiles Marked For Portland Found on Serbian Plane
Willamette Week-16 hours ago
Serbia probing Hellfire missiles found on Portland-bound Beirut flight
Opinion-Jerusalem Post Israel News-3 hours ago
US-made guided missiles found on board Air Serbia plane
International-B92-1 hour ago
Serbian prosecutors probe Hellfire missiles found on Beirut flight
Opinion-swissinfo.ch-3 hours ago

[presence]

I really don't see the purpose in finding these weapons, seizing them and then telling the world. Wouldn't it have made more sense to inform American "authorities", surveil the "package" and then pick up whoever claims the "package?"

Serbians don't like US. Purpose is probably to make US look foolish in global media.

only 20% of Serbs approved of U.S. leadership, with 57% disapproving and 22% uncertain, the fifth-lowest rating for any surveyed European country that year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia...ates_relations

[dannno]

I really don't see the purpose in finding these weapons, seizing them and then telling the world. Wouldn't it have made more sense to inform American "authorities", surveil the "package" and then pick up whoever claims the "package?"

They only put in that sort of effort for drugs

[pcosmar]

Who put them on the plane? and where did they get them?

f**k the nonsense about where they were allegedly going.