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| Algeria Army Recovers Stinger Missiles from Slain Jihadists |
| 2016-03-12 |
| [AnNahar] Algerian troops recovered six Stinger shoulder-fired ground-to-air missiles in an operation near the Tunisian border in which three suspected jihadists were killed, the defense ministry said on Friday. The missiles, made famous by their use by the mujahedeen against Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s and Washington's subsequent multi-million dollar program to buy them back to stop them falling into the hands of Al-Qaeda, were seized along with an array of other weaponry. They included suicide belts, rocket-propelled grenades and 20 Kalashnikov assault rifles, the ministry said. The operation took place in the Guemar district of El Oued province, around 600 kilometers (375 miles) southeast of Algiers, on Thursday evening. Algeria suffered a civil war in the 1990s between the government and Islamists that killed 200,000 people. Despite adopting a peace and reconciliation charter in 2005 aimed at turning the page on the conflict, gangs remain active in the center and east of the country. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #9 FFS, chip amd PIN the bastard things... |
| Posted by: Grealet Stalin3886 2016-03-12 17:53 |
| #8 Why would they be carrying non-working Stingers along with weapons that did work? Also, Benghazi in 2012 supposedly interrupted delivery of weapons to anti-Assad forces. That's only four years ago. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-03-12 12:56 |
| #7 It's the uncertainty factor: did they get new batteries? Were the missiles reconditioned? That's what keeps anti-terror team leaders awake at night. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2016-03-12 11:55 |
| #6 Stingers need batteries and refreshing of the cooling liquid fairly often. Most are not usable after a couple years if they don't have maintenance. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-03-12 10:50 |
| #5 "and if you sharpen the fins with a file it's a battleaxe.." |
| Posted by: Grunter 2016-03-12 09:30 |
| #4 "Batteries not included" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-03-12 09:15 |
| #3 Rocks? |
| Posted by: Sonny Bumble7713 2016-03-12 09:00 |
| #2 Muslims never throw away anything that can be used to kill people. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-03-12 07:21 |
| #1 Wouldn't any stingers given to the mujihadshit in Afghanistan in the 80s be non usable by now? I. Mean the batteries or something has to be dead by now. Hell I have to charge my phone 3 times a day. |
| Posted by: chris 2016-03-12 04:55 |