Libyan Islamist Rebels Pose With Planes Seized From Tripoli Airport

[big_dog]

Source: UK Daily Mail 13:33 EST, 3 September 2014

Eleven planes missing from Tripoli Airport after it was taken by Islamic rebels Fighters from group Libyan Dawn have posed for pictures with aircraft U.S. officials warn planes could be used to carry out terror attacks on 9/11 September 11 also marks anniversary of attack on US embassy in Libya

U.S. officials fear that these aeroplanes could now be used to carry out 9/11-style attacks in the region on the anniversary of the tragedy this month. A total of 11 commercial jets from state-owned carriers Libyan Airlines went missing in August after militants from the so-called 'masked men brigade' overran the airport.

Sebastian Gorka, a counterterrorism expert, said that the planes could be used in two ways to strike North Africa or even as far as the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. 'The first would be how commercial airliners were used on Sept 11, 2001, literally turning an innocent mode of mass transit into a super-high precision guided missile of immense potency,' Gorka, the Maj Gen Charles Horner chair at the Marine Corps University, said.

The second tactic could be to use the airframe with its civilian markings as a tool of deception to insert a full payload of armed terrorists into a locale that otherwise is always open to commercial carriers,' he added. U.S. officials have not publicly confirmed the eleven planes' disappearance, but are reportedly working to track them down.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2741428/Officials-warn-ELEVEN-missing-airplanes-Libya-used-carry-terrorist-attack-9-11-anniversary.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. Well, how special.

[Plucketeer]

2. I wouldn't be surprised to find out

that the US knows the exact location of each and every "missing" plane. Of course, FEAR is such a powerful and flexible tool that can serve as an excuse for just about ANY actions US and allied forces might be directed to perform. If we DON'T know where each and every missing plane is, then this reveals vulnerabilities we can't even begin to comprehend.

[leftynyc]

4. Or

they may know where the planes are but don't want to tip off the rebels to that bit of information but I understand that paranoia strikes deep.

[big_dog]

5. it would be difficult to have dozens trained to fly those planes

but im sure the flight schools in europe have been alerted by now

[Gore1FL]

9. self-delete

responded to wrong post!

Sorry!

[heaven05]

3. and the human race continues

to decline toward all out insanity, chaos, anarchy, death, slaughter and finally dictatorship with movement(s) restricted and not just because of race. Everyone will feel this one. Better have the covert boys on this one.

[ColesCountyDem]

6. How did they just happen to have at least 11 pilots with them? n/t

[cosmicone]

7. Or, they had 1 pilot and they towed the other planes along a road hahaha n/t

[Crowman1979]

8. Or better yet, a couple hundred aircraft mechanics.

[another_liberal]

10. I guess the war-hawks will say we should go bomb them too . . .

And thereby make sure they attack us with their "aeroplanes."


BTW: Did anyone notice that those American reporters had been prisoners of IS for months and no harm was done to them. It was after we started our bombing attacks on IS targets that they were beheaded. I'm not trying to excuse IS atrocities, just saying that bombing the hell out of everybody as soon as they scare us is not a tactic that has worked all that well.

[quadrature]

11. attack Syria, or not?

continue to send guns to Syria, or not?

[elias49]

12. I wonder if any of those yahoos knows how to fly?

For all we know, they dragged them away and took pictures in a Dollar Store parking lot.
Jeez