"I hate when that happens"...4,000 surface-to-air missiles missing in Iraq

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Missing antiaircraft missiles alarm aides
Up to 4,000 surface-to-air missiles unaccounted for in Iraq
By Dana Priest and Bradley Graham
Updated: 2:51 a.m. ET Nov. 7, 2004
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6424036

WASHINGTON - Several thousand shoulder-fired missiles — the kind that could be used to shoot down aircraft — are missing in Iraq, and their disappearance has prompted U.S. military and intelligence analysts to increase sharply their estimate of the number of such weapons that may be at large, administration officials said yesterday.

Some U.S. analysts figure that as many as 4,000 surface-to-air missiles once under the control of Saddam Hussein's government remain unaccounted for. That would raise the number of such missiles outside government hands worldwide to about 6,000.

But a senior defense official said yesterday that military intelligence analysts are having difficulty estimating just how many of the portable missiles may have vanished and how many of those may be in working order and therefore a threat to U.S. and other aircraft.

"We don't have a good estimate," the official said. "Some have put forward some figures, but there is none that the Defense Intelligence Agency has confidence in." Another official said government analysts could not say with any certainty whether the missing weapons remain in Iraq or have been smuggled outside the country. "There is no evidence that they have left the country," he said.

[WindRavenX]

1. psshh..you crazy liberals

It's only 4K missles :eyes:
:puke:
Why does the public BUY this shit!?

[rodeodance]

3. A batallion of 500 Iraqi soldiers has 'disappeared' in Fallujah!

so says a friend of mine ---but i have nothing to verify it.

[WindRavenX]

5. Fallujah

Is turning into a war crime zone- as if our actions weren't already.
It's fucking pathetic.

[BigBigBear]

2. Say what?

"There is no evidence that they have left the country," he said.

Where would they go? The war is in Iraq, isn't it?

It's just a matter of whose shoulders they fire from.

[spatlese]

4. Let's see how much coverage this gets!

It's absolutely CRAZY!! This is the kinds of weapons that kills our troops!!
:mad:

[Maat]

9. LOL!

'Course a certain DUer worked for General Dynamics in the 80's (a part of my past I'm not so proud of) ... and we made them. Now, do a Google, and figure out where we sent them.

Hint: 1) the 1st recipient was a guy that was captured with a long beard, and was formerly the dictator of a country with 10% of the world's oil reserves.

Hint #2: the 2nd recipient we're looking to kill because he murdered 3,000 people.

Funny in very perverse sort of way. That was when they convinced this former accountant that working in Aerospace was a patriotic thing to do.

I wised up as I got older.

[against all enemies]

6. They will probably turn up sometime.

[LongTomH]

7. They can be used against airliners, too!

These things could be sold on the international black market to terrorists worldwide! It's time to re-open the debate on putting infrared-jamming devices on airliners.:scared: :scared:

[gordianot]

8. Or the Arizona National Guard watches several hundred.....

trucks cart away explosives from AlQuaqa. Broke the day after the election. NPR on Wednesday morning.

Oh yeah they asked for help and the chain of command was unable to provide reinforcements. The Arizona National Guard was out numbered by the former Republican Guard. Planning at its best.