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2011-08-23 Africa North

Cost of Libya Ops ~$900 million for Uncle Sucker

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Posted by Steve White 2011-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 And that's just the beginning.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-08-23 07:57|| 2011-08-23 07:57|| Front Page Top

#2 US Casualties? Not a scratch? Or do we no longer publish such information?

$221.9 in ammo fees will no doubt be forgiven or returned via a Euro bail-out scheme.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-08-23 08:32|| 2011-08-23 08:32|| Front Page Top

#3 making the world safe for radical islam, one pesthole at a time.

Posted by Creper Chitch2950 2011-08-23 17:23|| 2011-08-23 17:23|| Front Page Top

#4 CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER = doesn't believe that POTUS BAMMER = USA will commit or divert any major US ground forces to Iraq.

IIUC, IOW NATO-EU + Saudis + other Regional Muslim Govts have the ball irregardless of what happens to Gaddafi.

* ION NEWSMAX > US FEARS GADHAFI [in last stand]COULD UNLEASH CHEMICAL, NUCLEAR WMDS | LIBYA'S DEADLIEST WEAPONS ARE NOT YET CORRALLED.

Greatest fear of US INTEL + DOD Officials is that many or all of Libya's WMD Arsenal will ultimately fall into the hands of AL-QAEDA + OTHER MILTERR GROUPS, espec includ Libya's stockpiles of ...

> 500-900 metric tons of raw uranium yellowcake stored in drums at RABTA, east of Tripoli.
> 11 metric tons of MUSTARD GAS.
> roughly 30,000 MANPADS/AAMS.

Milyuhns + Dilyuhns of OTHER MIL ARMS, WARES.

* SAME > MIDDLE EAST EXPERT: [post-Assad]SYRIA'S WMDS COULD FALL TO ISLAMISTS. Large CHEMWAR caches + 000's of SCUDS.

* SAME > WALID PHARES: OBAMA, NATO MUST STOP LIBYA'S HARDLINE ISLAMISTS FROM TAKING POWER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-23 23:07|| 2011-08-23 23:07|| Front Page Top

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